Word: bits
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...There's a lot of uncertainty in medicine in terms of what will happen in the future and I think students are a bit confused and are trying to get a bit more experience before they commit themselves," she says...
Carey then continued his fine hitting performance. Last season's Ivy League Rookie of the Year singled to center driving in Keck and Kessler and ending Arteaga's evening a bit early...
...home with Heaven's Gate? Or the mother from Cincinatti, who spotted Applewhite's writings on the Internet and felt compelled to leave her three boys and newborn twin girls to join the group? For their sake, if not for all 39 of the dead, we should stifle a bit of our condescension and maintain the humility that should infuse any discussion of faith...
Being Poet Laureate is not too stressful. The Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington, appoints the two-year post after asking around a bit. The Laureate is responsible for a poetry reading of his own work in the fall and offering official advice as "poetry consultant." For these duties, the laureate receives a $35,000 stipend, an office in the library's attic and tons of publicity...
Billington is not to be blamed completely. Pinsky himself has slipped into wordiness on the subject. This bit from The New York Times is a true horror: Computers and poetry "share the great human myth of trope, an image that could be called the secret passage: the discovery of large, manifold channels through a small ordinary looking or all but invisible aperture...