Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those students who lack either the funds or culinary ability to feed themselves, it is a miserable existence. Thankfully, Harvard Dining Services (HDS) can fill this gastro-intestinal void. HDS is contemplating adding a fourth meal to the board plan, we hope in acknowledgment of the long nocturnal hours we spend working instead of sleeping...
Imagine if at the end of a lazy browse at the bookstore, clutching new hardcovers and an overflowing latte, you're handed a clipboard and told to fill out three sheets of information about yourself before you can purchase anything. There goes the impulse buy. But that's how checkout works at most e-commerce sites. And that's where about a quarter of e-shoppers lose interest. Wouldn't it be so much easier if you could swipe your Visa card and be done with...
Nathans agrees that students should have some sort of confidant in the administration but disagrees that proctors properly fill this role--the United Ministry, she suggests, is a more appropriate confidential resource...
...target is a rogue protein known as beta amyloid, which forms the plaques that fill the brain's memory centers; just two weeks ago scientists identified one of the enzymes that are key to its formation. Another is an abnormal variant of the tau protein, which is thought to clutter the interiors of nerve cells with threadlike tangles. Over the coming years, as a new generation of Alzheimer's drugs enters the clinical pipeline, the arguments that rage today over which is more important, beta amyloid or tau, may be resolved. Kosik suspects that both may be critical...
...child tossed out an average of nearly 1,600 lbs. of banana peels, Cheerios boxes, gum wrappers, Coke cans, ratty sofas, TIME magazines, car batteries, disposable diapers, yard trimmings, junk mail, worn-out Nikes--plus whatever else goes into your trash cans. An equivalent weight of water could fill 68,000 Olympic-size pools...