First, the effort to achieve a place- and age-responsive DRR is not self-insulated but rather is closely related to other policy initiatives on social inclusion and urban sustainability.
Re "Staying Warm and Fuzzy During Uncertain Times" (Fashion page, Dec. 3), about the surprising surge in fur sales: Some of us would rather stay warm and fuzzy in our insulated parkas.
Hairy, non‐glabrous skin covering the rest of the body is typically insulated from the environment by hair or clothes, and thermal signals from this skin reflect the temperature of the insulated superficial layer of the body, rather than the ambient temperature.
The two seen most often are rather striking: Katharine Phillips, a charming Mobilian from a comfortably insulated family, and Sascha Weinzheimer, from a wealthy Sacramento farm family that had "enormous holdings" in the Philippines.
Has she fragrance?" The judge clearly had no doubts: living with such a vision, he said, how could Jeffrey Archer possibly be "in need of cold, unloving, rubber-insulated sex in a seedy hotel?" But the truth was rather different.
His encyclopedic range of cultural histories and their world views facilitated his ability to see beyond the shortsighted contemporary visions that divided up history into falsely successive, separate and insulated schools and modes of production and industry that we've come to, rather bureaucratically, call "premodern", "modern", and "postmodern".
Rather they crept over the country by stealth, so that the outside world, and even many in the insulated comfort of Katmandu, seem scarcely to have noticed, until it is almost too late to stem the slide.
Consociations consist of somewhat insulated groups in member units who in addition are represented in central institutions often governing by unanimity rather than by majority (Lijphart 1977).
(Deliverers use insulated carriers).
(An insulated travel mug).
