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Familiar chains like Pizzaria Uno, Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizzaria, TCBY and Au Bon Pain already dot the Square landscape--although Ron Shaich, co-founder and CEO of Au Bon Pain, insists his French-styled cafe is not "fast food...
Couched in a halo of nutrient cells, an egg smaller than the dot on an i drifts slowly down a Fallopian tube, one of a pair of narrow passages that lead from a woman's ovaries to her womb. Like a beacon guiding ships at night, the egg sends forth a calling signal. A convoy of sperm -- the remnants of an armada that was once a couple of hundred million strong -- sails into view, their long tails thrashing vigorously. Lured by the chemical signal, several hundred of the most energetic swimmers close in on the egg, their narrow tips unleashing...
Simplified forms and the presence of more staff from the registrar's office may make registration go faster, but the dreaded red dot will still slow down approximately one seventh of returning undergraduates...
...term bill office's supervisor of collection, Karen M. Rockwell, said yesterday that approximately 700 students will receive the dreaded blotch on their registration packets. The dot indicates that they must meet with a representative from the term bill office before continuing to register...
...shallow depressions that dot the farm fields of North Dakota would hardly + fit most peoples' definition of wetlands. The smallest of these glacier-carved features, known as prairie potholes, are under water for only a few weeks in the spring. During periods of low rainfall, they are almost indistinguishable from any other acreage. But when the frozen ground warms in early spring, the depressions swarm with crustaceans and insects that provide migrating waterfowl with essential protein. The smaller potholes also enable breeding pairs of birds to find the privacy they covet...