Word: distinctives
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...ever woken up on a windowsill in an unknown common room with a court summons for public urination in his pants pocket and the word “douchebag” written in pink permanent marker across his forehead.I can divide the events of my life into those two distinct categories. I know that I won a math bee in fifth grade. I remember hitting the first and only home run of my Little League career against St. Joseph’s at Juniper Park in Middle Village, N.Y. in April of that same year. I remember how it felt...
...contain emotion, most commonly mild anxiety or frustration. Our dreams tend not to be reproductions of past events but rather, according to research led by Tore Nielsen, director of the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory at Sacr?-Coeur Hospital in Montreal, reinterpretations of events that happened at two distinct time periods: yesterday and about a week ago. We also dream about upcoming events and conversations we'd like to have. Other times the content is so weird who knows where it comes from...
...mobile devices. Apple could employ flash memory instead of a standard hard disc, extending a mini Mac's battery life and allowing it to start up quickly, like a phone. A Jobs subnotebook would likely be bigger than FlipStart's but smaller than a laptop. Apple would have a distinct software advantage, given its focus on nongeeks...
...child psychiatrist, with her husband Alexander Thomas, followed 133 children from infancy through adulthood. The findings, the earliest of which were published in 1960, challenged the era's accepted wisdom that infants were blank slates to be doomed or graced by parents. They found that children were born with distinct temperaments that, in conjunction with parental styles, determined the people they would become...
...legislation, which was e-mailed to professors yesterday morning and obtained by The Crimson last night, was drafted by three senior Faculty members distinct from the nine-person Task Force on General Education. The authors of the legislation were Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, Professor of History Peter E. Gordon, and Emery Professor of Chemistry Eric N. Jacobsen...