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...tempting to drag others’ clothes haphazardly from washers as soon as they stop spinning, and throw them out of the way. It takes only an extra 30 seconds to remove the load carefully, instead of dumping piles of dripping pants, underwear and towels onto a dust covered countertop (losing a sock in the process). On the flip side, the average drying cycle lasts about 56 minutes. No one expects fellow students to time their loads to the minute, returning to fetch clean clothes at the exact moment of completion. Most of us run on incredibly tight schedules...
...combined 15 top-10 performances on the day. The women’s squad had the strongest debut, with three winners and 12 top-10 finishes. Junior Becky Christensen won the high jump by clearing 1.72 meters. “Basically, the goal is basically just shake off the dust and get back into competing,” Christensen said. “I jumped kind of how I expected. I jumped about the same as I did at the first meet the last two years.” Senior Danielle Mirabal won the 55-meter dash, finishing...
...Updike ’54 looks like the archetypal embodiment of New England aristocracy. One of America’s most prolific writers, Updike also togs up rather nicely. But is he all that different than so many other men posing on the covers of their books? The dust jacket blurb is surprisingly humble until it reaches the end: “Reading ‘Due Considerations’ is like taking a cruise that calls at many ports, with a witty, sensitive and articulate guide aboard—a voyage not to be missed...
...Since dust particles are often several time larger than the devices that nanoscientists create, and temperature difference of a fraction of a degree can decrease the precision of an imaging device, LISE’s heavily-filtered 10,000-square foot cleanroom has less than 1,000 particles of dust per cubic foot. A typical urban environment has millions of particles per cubic foot...
...preordination and inevitability. He appeared destined for the same fate that had met a long line of Democratic insurgents - Gary Hart, Paul Tsongas, Bill Bradley and Howard Dean among them - whose promises of a new kind of politics had briefly enjoyed a vogue, only to be crushed into dust by a front-runner who was using the standard playbook...