Word: actualizing
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...Folklore and Mythology 172. Quilts and Quiltmaking — We can't wait to see who will be taking this class with us. From the course description, it sounds like actual quiltmaking won't be happening, but we can dream, right? Thimbles not required...
...hordes of prefrosh that were just on campus, gorging themselves at countless ice cream socials and pizza parties—all on the College’s tab—you’re probably wondering how Harvard can afford to dish out all those goodies while depriving its actual undergraduate population of arguably the most important meal of the day. And why is it that we can afford to keep the HUDS worker whose job consists of standing by the back door of Annenberg to prevent students from surreptitiously making off with dishware, while we can?...
...There really were breakthroughs in the talks. But these were bureaucratic advances, the sort that only occasionally lead to actual changes. Holbrooke was well aware of this, of course, and he was quick to say that "no one is promising that this will win the war." He then added, with a certain pride of authorship, "But success isn't possible if we didn't do it." And he's right: for the first time, Afghan and Pakistani Ministers of the Interior sat down and hammered out a rudimentary agreement on information-sharing. Agricultural and trade delegations also...
...order to understand how much actual physical activity the kids were getting, the Peninsula team had them wear ActiGraphs, light but sophisticated devices that measure not only the amount of physical movement that one's body engages in but its intensity. During four one-week periods over four consecutive school terms, the kids wore the ActiGraphs not just during school but all day (except when bathing or sleeping...
...Asian 21st century. Last year, Japanese prime minister Taro Aso floated the idea of an "arch of freedom," a security consensus threading together democracies like India, Japan and Australia, but its obvious anti-Chinese subtext meant the notion gained little traction. "Nobody is going to sign up to an actual containment policy," says McDevitt of the Center for Naval Analyses...