Word: expendable
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Gossip Whirl Can "Obama shred the rumors" [June 23]? Sure, but should he be distracted and waste his time and energy doing so? The best response to untrue and exaggerated blather is to simply say it is not true and let the accusers expend and frustrate themselves trying to prove otherwise. Ron Blackmore, HAMILTON...
Another hurdle is popular distrust in aiding China at all. The Japanese public questions why Japan should expend its resources assisting a nation that is rapidly becoming its chief competitor. The short answer is that if Japan doesn't, someone else will--and will reap the rewards. Yet Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs discontinued new loan projects to China this year, although existing loans will be honored, and other types of aid, like technical assistance, will continue...
...meantime, Von Ahn has figured out a way to take advantage of all the spare brainpower hundreds of millions of people expend deciphering wiggly letters. He has teamed up with the Internet Archive, a San Francisco nonprofit that uses computers to digitally scan books and put the text online, where it can be accessed for free. When its scanners find a word they can't read, they automatically turn it into a CAPTCHA that gets exported to a website in need of one. A human reads it and transcribes it, and the results get sent back to the scanner...
...victory over the Crimson (6-7). This marks Brown’s sixth straight victory over Harvard, dating back to last season. Since 2004, the Bears have controlled the series with a 14-6 advantage over the Crimson. “We didn’t expend sufficient energy to execute what we needed to execute,” said Harvard coach Erik Farrar. “That is without a question the worst game we played all year. We were just flat and not moving. We got outplayed, outhustled, and outmuscled.” Brown opened the first quarter...
...drinking on campus. To learn, however, that beer, wine, and liquor compose the bulk of expenses for UC-funded parties was startling. It makes me glad as a parent of a Harvard sophomore that the College sought to cut off the booze spigot from term-bill funding. But why expend so many inches in print to criticize the UC for being weak-kneed simply to be able to continue to spend funds from term bills lavishly on beer, wine, and liquor? Surely there are more important issues to address. It makes me wonder whether there is too much imbibing...