Word: excepts
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...Cornell is far from unflawed, as it will be hurt by graduation arguably more than any team except for Penn. The Big Red loses its starting frontcourt in Second Team All-Ivy center Andrew Naeve—who led the league in blocks and also averaged 10.5 points and 7.6 rebounds-per-game—and forward Ugo Ihekweazu. Starting guard Graham Dow, the school’s all-time leader in steals, also departs, but the main hole is up front...
...obvious first criticism that comes to mind when one thinks of Facebook: It’s damn creepy. There’s a voyeuristic perversity that goes along with the Facebook territory that allows all of us to peer into the inner-goings of just about everybody (well, except people with those pesky restrictions...
...groves, where Stoeckel inspected the orange trees for canker and other diseases—“I just walked up and down the rows,” he says—didn’t really help his fitness. Nor did it help much of anything else, except maybe his pocketbook...
...buzzed by the Foreign Minister, the Minister of Regional Zones and the director of the Sao Tome-Portugal Business Association. (That was to be the only bulletin I caught. When I dropped by the local network hoping to meet some local journalists on a Saturday, I found it closed except for a man who explained apologetically that there was "no news at the weekend...
Google makes virtually all its money--$10.6 billion in revenue last year and $3.1 billion in after-tax profit--selling advertisements. But except for a few endeavors like Google Maps, it's a media firm that produces no content. Rather than take on established media outfits as outright competitors, Google has been trying to persuade them to let it help them find audiences and sell ads. Some media powers have signed up. But the prospect of a world organized on Google's terms remains unsettling to executives accustomed to controlling the path their products take to consumers...