Word: amateurisms
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...Michael Jackson, but still “they were hitting pretty hard,” Vloka said. Up to four people from each house were allowed to compete, and the entire men’s and women’s varsity fencing teams showed up to support their amateur counterparts. In the end, Katherine E. Medina ’10 of Eliot House and Luke A. Leafgren, a tutor in Winthrop House, came out victorious...
...using a small, amateur-quality telescope hooked up to a low-end digital camera, and running off a car battery on the side of the road, Langford braved the elements ("clouds, rain, hail, fog, gale force winds...") as well as the suspicions of local farmers. "I had someone call the cops on me one time because he thought I was going to steal his alpacas...
...only cost about $15,000 - next to nothing for a piece of groundbreaking astronomical research. "Earthshine is such a simple idea that we have known about for such a long time," says Langford, "but it makes looking at Earth as a 'prototype' Earth-like planet so easy! An amateur astronomer could definitely take this data...
...denial by of calling for Sen. Mark Begich to resign so Ted Stevens could be re-elected after e-mailing "I absolutely agree" in response to Alaska Republican Party chairman's call for Begich to step down • description of by former supporter of as "a clownish, vindictive amateur...
...studies, Willis and his colleagues found that birds like the Dartford warbler - which generally breed in the warmer areas of Western Europe - are increasingly being spotted in Britain, even though the island was thought to be too cold for them. (The U.K. is blessed with an energetic corps of amateur ornithologists, which means scientists there have a wealth of data on bird sightings...