Word: circuitousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Minister Tzipi Livni is in many ways Olmert's opposite. The Prime Minister is a jokey backslapper and charmer, a consummate pol with expensive tastes in cigars, flashy wristwatches and fountain pens; Livni, 49, is a no-nonsense former Mossad agent who eschews small talk, avoids the Bar Mitzvah circuit most Israeli politicians use to rack up favors and lives quietly in a modest Tel Aviv home with her husband and two sons. And she has strong views on probity in the public sphere. "I resent the idea that corruption comes with the political system," she tells Time...
...examples above are all fundamentally human questions—fit as much for a Shakespeare play as for a physics textbook. I suspect Beranek, now 93, vividly recalled his mentor’s words because they are universally applicable—useful for building a circuit, teasing out a moral dilemma in biotechnology, or confronting global warming...
...Zuckerberg, 24, is a hot ticket on the conference circuit, and when I spoke to him, he had just returned to Palo Alto, Calif., from a major tech-industry event near San Diego. There he had been grilled yet again on whether he'd sell Facebook to Microsoft, whose minority investment gave Facebook a $15 billion valuation. (Microsoft, which tried and failed to buy Yahoo!, could use a new platform itself.) Yet again Zuckerberg said no, he's not selling out - he's just trying to build a great and viable platform and that takes time. Zuckerberg speaks...
...February, a short circuit generated extreme heat and smoke inside one of two Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems in the Science Center data center, leading to a power failure that shut down much of the computing services for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Geoff Rathgeber.Rathgeber, a co-captain of the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team, helped lead his squad to unprecedented success—including a perfect conference record. Along the way, he also made a name for himself on both the Ivy League and national swimming circuit by setting numerous records and consistently outperforming his opponents in both regular and postseason meets.“Being able to train with Geoff has been a great experience, because he basically sets the bar for competitive exellence and sets the standard for what can be achieved for an Ivy League...