Word: actualizations
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...years past, the Ivy League kicked off the season with intra-Ivy pairings between similarly untested league foes—not against teams with actual games already under their belts...
...blamed on everything from SUV drivers to coastal developers to the Army Corps of Engineers, in a strange rite of reassurance: if man has the power to cause these calamities, maybe he would have the power to prevent them. The speed with which the commentariat moved from covering an actual storm to a political one-hurricanes don't kill people, inept bureaucrats kill people-suggests which subject is more comfortable discussing. Somehow human nature, even at its most disturbing, is less scary than Mother Nature at her most murderously cavalier, thousands dead in a single deep breath...
...choices with respect to alcohol use. A typical social norms message would be: 78 percent of Harvard students had 0 to 5 drinks the last time they partied. Because many students tend to overestimate the extent to which their peers engage in high-risk behaviors, providing realistic data on actual alcohol consumption levels will help to challenge existing misperceptions and may, in turn, lead to more moderate behaviors...
...isles dotting the country's brilliant blue seas, yet less than 200 of them inhabited, Greece is a natural attraction for island shoppers who want to enjoy clear waters, sandy beaches and fantastic summer weather far from tourists and prying paparazzi lenses. State officials refuse to disclose the actual number of islands for sale, but high-end real estate experts say 17 barren outcrops alone are up for grabs in the Ionian Sea, near Nidri Lefkada, pictured, and Skorpios, Onassis' private retreat. Paloma Picasso, fashion designer and daughter of the Spanish artist Pablo, recently bought...
...have troops in Iraq, but the Mississippi National Guard has an even larger percentage of its forces overseas, and looting was virtually non-existent in the latter state while epidemic in the former. It is true that the funding for levy projects in New Orleans was cut, but the actual levies that failed were recently reconstructed and perhaps the strongest in the entire system. It is also true that the federal response was botched, but we should not forget that the local response was a complete, total, catastrophic, and most of all, shameful failure...