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Spring break is over. NYU recently beat Harvard for first in a list of “Dream Schools” published by the Princeton Review. You totally forgot the obscene, profanity-filled acronym you memorized to help you with theropods on your Dinosaurs midterm. And let’s not forget that thing that happened with President Lawrence H. Summers, a man whose name I only want to see in print again if it is followed by the words “has decided to give Pablo Torre a million dollars...
...measure my chest movement. Then I was told to relax and fall asleep. Yeah, right. Eventually I did. And then halfway through the night, a nurse came in and put a special mask on my face. It looks like a respirator, which is what it is. The CPAP (an acronym for continuous positive airway pressure) machine is designed to blow air at a steady pressure into your airways to keep you breathing regularly. Hooked up, I drifted off again. The nurse measured my sleep patterns remotely and varied the air pressure in the CPAP to maximize my sleep...
...ascendant service company was founded in our very own Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1949 as a cleaning company targeting the local universities and colleges. According to their website, the name UNICCO was originally intended as an acronym for UNIversity Cleaning Company. The website encourages their potential customers to move to outsourcing as a way to focus on “core business” and achieve maximum cost-effectiveness...
...ramsi. An intervention force may seem an unlikely thing to swoon over, but the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands has pop-star appeal across the 992-island archipelago. The freshly minted brand has gained the status of savior and sorcerer with a long-suffering people, who utter the acronym in respectful whispers or with toothy smiles. From the streets of the ragtag capital, Honiara, to remote villages that the modern world has barely touched, a white stranger is instinctively welcomed as a friend rather than a carpetbagger because of ramsi's good works. High on a ridge above Honiara...
...dangerous. As a habit, Munir kept things to himself, Rachland says, especially when the matter was dangerous. Even in death, Munir hasn't escaped his enemies. On Nov. 20, someone mailed his wife a decapitated chicken along with a note reading: "Be careful!!!!! Do not connect the TNI [an acronym for the Indonesian armed forces] to the death of Munir. Do you want to end up like this?" Contacted by TIME, a spokesman for the armed forces said that they would welcome an early conclusion to the investigation as the public would then know that they had nothing...