Word: fitful
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...using software to automatically create thousands of e-mail accounts very quickly, then using those accounts to send out spam. The Carnegie Mellon team came back with the CAPTCHA. (It stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart"; no, the acronym doesn't really fit.) The point of the CAPTCHA is that reading those swirly letters is something that computers aren't very good at. If you can read them, you're probably not a piece of software run by a spammer. Congratulations--you can have an e-mail account...
...Much of the new program’s success will depend on whether the committee is able to “hold their nerve” and reject proposals that do not fit the criteria, Simpson said. In doing so, it will preserve the desired differences between Gen Ed and the Core...
...Balasubramanian said he knew that Harvard was his best fit school from the beginning but had to find an alternative school to apply to early after Harvard eliminated its early action program...
...within two years “immunized by America.”“I had caught the American bug—that there is no reason to not think you could do something new,” Pilbeam said, adding that Cambridge at that time did not fit the bill.In 1981, after another 13 years at Yale, Pilbeam came to Harvard—the only place he would go other than Yale, he said.Pilbeam quickly immersed himself in the University community, acting as a professor, a head tutor for the human and evolutionary biology concentration, the dean...
...Four young professors—Kramer, Steven R. Levitsky from government, Mark Schiefsky from classics, and Pol Antràs from economics, who all received tenure before their 40th birthday—fit these trends. And while they represent a small sampling of the faculty, their hirings may serve as models for future junior faculty trying to clear the tenure hurdle...