Word: basic
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This semester's two SCOPE classes are part of a pilot project subsidized by the College. The classes aim to teach students material they can expect to see on the MCAT, which covers basic college science courses...
...institute will use the money to fund a three-year program devoted to basic research, vaccine development and treatments to block mother-to-infant transmission of HIV, he virus that causes AIDS. The money will also fund a program to train AIDS researchers from southern Africa, which has been hit especially hard by AIDS, according to an Oak Institute press release...
...pack up everything I'll need." While Stoeckel has been able to incorporate this into his daily routine without frustration, transfers commonly agree that the pitfalls of Quad life are outweighed only by the backpacks they're forced to lug around the Yard all day. Still, despite its basic inconveniences, many believe the separation between home and class is actually a positive benefit. '94 Pfoho graduate and current Winthrop resident tutor Jim Doak maintains that "there's something to be said for returning home to the Quad...
...flagging. Located near the upper end of Mulberry Street, where the feel is more neighborhood and less theme park, Lombardi's serves the best pizza in the city (a close runner-up is Patsy Grimaldi's, just under the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge). For $12.50, a large basic pie (mozzarella, cheese, basil) feeds two. If the weather's warm enough, ask to sit on the roof...
...term "living wage" seems not to have an exact economic definition. The campaign uses it to mean enough money to "live decently and raise [one's] family." It seems generally accepted to mean enough wages for a worker to live a safe distance above the poverty line--including non-"basic" costs like child care, housing and transportation...