Word: bags
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Council member Melissa Garza set the tone of the meeting, standing before the council with a grocery bag of grapes, which referred to Hanselman's letter to the editor in Friday's issue of The Crimson in which he said the "sour-grapes contingent" of women "perpetuates divisiveness within the council...
...think for a moment, though, that Harvard considered the win in the bag...
...little practical effect. According to a Congressional study, alcohol-related fatalities among the 18-24 age group are down 13% through 1991. That sounds good at first, but when you consider that these same years have witnessed the implementation of compulsory seat-belt laws, the air-bag, and stricter enforcement of drunk driving laws, the effect seems much less dramatic...
...ultimate medical nightmare. You slip under the anesthesia confident that your problem will be solved with some simple procedure -- a polyp excision, for example, or tubal ligation. But when you wake up you find your breasts are missing or your intestine now terminates in a plastic bag. Too bad we had the wrong patient, the surgeons shrug, because the operation went beautifully...
David Premack actually devised his simple test to study children. First, a child is shown a tableau in which a little girl named Sally puts a marble in her bag and then leaves the room. Before Sally returns, another girl, Ann, takes the marble from Sally's bag and puts it in a box. The child is then asked where Sally will look for the marble when she returns. Three-year-olds will point to the box, because that is where the marble is; but four-year-olds understand that Sally has the mistaken belief that the marble is still...