Word: collectable
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Sophomore Charles Altchek uses his height to collect balls from the air. Classmate Matt Hoff has the dribbling skills to beat almost any defender. Junior Anthony Tornaritis employs craft to get around opponents...
...adviser and eight Iraqi technocrats appointed by the UN - has opted to base the voter roll on the ration cards issued to Iraqi households by the UN to supply them with food during the decade of international sanctions. In November, when the heads of most Iraqi households collect their ration cards for 2005, they'll also be invited to register. (Other arrangements will be made to accommodate returning exiles and members of the 3 million-strong Iraqi diaspora...
Consider, as a case study, everyone’s favorite now-publicly-traded search engine. Google’s privacy policy states explicitly that they collect limited “non personally-identifying information” about your queries. Among the content of this information may very well be (the policy is not entirely transparent so we can’t be sure) a connection between your unique Internet Protocol address (something which while not ‘personally identifying’ on Google’s behalf can, by Harvard, at the request of a court, be linked back...
Smashing into the Utah desert at nearly 200 m.p.h. was no way to end a space mission, but that's just what the GENESIS spacecraft did last week. After a three-year flight to collect samples of the solar wind, Genesis was supposed to re-enter the atmosphere, deploy its parachutes and be snagged in midair by a Hollywood helicopter pilot. But the chutes failed to open. NASA scientists believe some samples may nonetheless have survived intact...
...been following his career since he was treasurer of the United States,” Cantabrigian Silas Howland ’08 said, “and I even used to collect his dollar bills. He has magical eyes...