Word: booting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most brilliant, friendly, and beautiful teenagers on the planet. The dorms will be capacious old historical structures with presidents’ names etched in the walls. The professors will all be intellectual titans who lavish students with posh research sinecures and emit pleasant fragrances of lilac to boot. A river of candy and diamonds will course mightily through the center of Harvard Yard on alternate Thursdays, and the sex will be plentiful and outstanding. In short, life will be a sum of perfections at Harvard: the prescribed antidote to a childhood of burdens and outputs organized specifically to produce this...
...When it has dealt with the subject of war on the big screen, postwar Germany has tended to view it from the dark side. Movies such as Das Boot (1981), 2004's Der Untergang (The Downfall) and Sophie Scholl (2005) explored the experience through an unwaveringly critical lens. Even the upcoming Valkyrie, a Tom Cruise movie about a German officer who tried to kill Hitler, focuses mainly on the horrors of war. Der Rote Baron, by contrast, portrays its combatant hero in a positive light. "It's a remarkable movie," the Baron's nephew, Manfred von Richthofen, told Die Welt...
...Italy's social topography: the north is efficient and prosperous, the south beset by poverty, mobsters and bad governance. But it was never that simple, as Amendolara demonstrates. This generally well-run coastal town is in the most troubled southern region of all: Calabria, the toe of the Italian boot, where the baleful influence of the crime syndicate 'Ndrangheta is pervasive, the infrastructure is dismal, and the unemployment rate is 13% - double the national average. Amendolara partakes of some of that woe - it's still underdeveloped and isolated - but not all of it. The mob holds no sway here...
Ultra-Compact Computer Weighing in at only 1 lb., OQO's latest PC is the world's smallest Windows Vista--capable computer, with a blazing processor to boot. The device is small enough to fit in your hand--and boasts wireless Web access. Not so small price...
...quickly last year’s second and third starters, sophomore Dana Roberts and senior Amanda Watkins, will get healthy.Watkins, who has gotten some work in during the first two tournaments, is slowly making her way back after spending the fall walking around with her foot in a boot. A starter since her freshman year, Watkins has the opportunity to make a large impact in her last season with the Crimson if she can get healthy.“It’s just a matter of continuing, now that she’s throwing strong at 43 feet, working...