New Zealand writer Craig Cliff won best first book for A Man Melting, a collection of short stories.
We are a melting pot, a mosaic of immigrants where competence is recognized and rewarded.
Behind the myth of Hollywood lies a swirling melting pot of a place where nearly half of people speak Spanish and where, for every rising star, there's at least a hundred wannabes waiting tables or entertaining tourists on Venice Beach.
That would affront the French republican notion that a melting-pot should produce a single stew, as, by and large, did earlier waves of immigration in the past half-century from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Italy.
These ripples are part of Singapore's transformation from a micro-managed melting pot into a cosmopolitan city-state.
The Greenland glaciers are melting at a furiously dangerous rate, reports Robert Purves, an Australian environmental consultant and current board member of World Wildlife Fund (Australia).
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Moreover, the Kilimanjaro glacier is melting in a way that suggests it is probably not caused by the supposedly CO 2-induced higher temperatures but by reduced precipitation.
In 1975, at age 25, he left for Indonesia, where he started a scrap-melting steel plant with a local partner.
To signal that his party is winding down, Mr. Brenner usually makes a dessert by melting milk chocolate in a pan for fondue and sets that out with sliced bananas, strawberries and marshmallows for guests to dip in the chocolate.
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Even if it meant nothing for sea levels, though, a melting Arctic (see video-graphic) still means a lot for the ecology of the region.
At its core, the program believes in creating a melting pot of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives while also maintaining a context of openness that doesn't shy away from experimentation and failure.
All of the actors do admirable work (especially Ribisi, who's the key element of a gruesome, truly heartbreaking scene) but this grab-bag sampling of The Great Melting Pot is a staple of the kind of war movie that Spielberg is supposed to be deconstructing.
And it was in that context that I was sworn into office almost four years ago, at a time when the banking system was melting down, at a time when -- the month I was sworn in, we lost 800, 000 jobs, the worst crisis since the Great Depression.
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Why should the melting Arctic, a product of man-made global warming, be any different?
If she is living in a melting pot like New York, she is global on steroids.
The soft consistency of Cheez Whiz means melting it is a breeze, perfect for busy cooks pushing out non-stop orders.
The island is a melting pot of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and other Asian cultures that are expressed deliciously in the foods sold at the open-air hawker centres.
"Singapore is a melting pot, which helps to create great cuisine, like in New York and London, " says Violet Oon, who runs a Singapore food consultancy and is the author of two cookbooks.
Apart from Mr. Billard's melting bonus, a bank teller in British Columbia made national news after she told a local radio station of seeing bills that had melted a on car dashboard on a hot summer day.
Our scientists generally think that global warming will cause a melting of the icecaps and that will raise the water level and so on and so forth, but that might not be the worst thing that happens.
It is said that it got going at the end of the 19th Century in Buenos Aires' brothels, where a melting pot of poor immigrants and country folk danced together while waiting their turn to slip behind the bedroom door.
The power-sharing deal is expected to keep Zimbabwe's melting economy from a total collapse: Its official inflation rate of 231 million percent is the world's worst, and the United Nations estimates that 5 million people need urgent food aid.
"The venom gland of snakes appears to be a melting pot for evolving new functions for molecules, some of which are retained in venom for killing prey, while others go on to serve new functions in other tissues in the body, " he said.
London's not only where political power is wielded, but it's where cultural power is focused too - as a melting pot of cultural ideas and identities and at the business end of culture, from publishing to West End theatre to the BBC London headquarters.
The World's Newsroom is a melting pot for the best journalism in the world, using five custom-built studios with new sets and fresh creative graphics and cutting-edge cameras with virtual reality and 3D capabilities to create news that's immersive, dynamic, and more engaging than ever.
Yangon has a pleasant charm and gentle energy, with vast gardens and riverside walks, the grandeur of centuries-old monuments such as the Shwedegon Pagoda, a fast-growing cultural scene of art galleries and music performances, and a melting pot population of all Myanmar's tribes as well as industrious overseas Indians and Chinese, who make up 5% of the nation's population.
Much global warming alarm centers upon concerns that melting glaciers will cause a disastrous sea level rise.
"There's a real melting pot of languages and people draw on all kinds of different kits, " said Nia Parry.
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There have been many groups represented over time, from enslaved and indigenous peoples, those of European stock, and now to a population reflecting the wider world -- truly a "melting pot, " he said.
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