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...cold snap swept across the continent. Eurostar officials said Sunday that the tiny flakes appear to have penetrated the air filters on the locomotive's engine blocks and then melted when the trains entered the heated tunnel, causing the electrical systems to short out. "It was lighter than normal, fluffier, and the temperature inside the tunnel and the humidity was higher than normal," Nick Mercer, Eurostar's commercial director, told the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eurostar Breakdown: 'Tis the Season to Be Livid | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...subject, so there are limited options when it comes to fulfilling the dreaded QR requirement--or, excuse us--the Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning category under the "new" Gen. Ed. curriculum. On the one hand, there are classes like "Bits" and "The Magic of Numbers" that seem geared to the fluffier humanities types, and on the other, there are the departmental courses, which, yes, provide solid, mathematical instruction but are basically just harder versions of the math you couldn't even handle in high school...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Math "Ma?" | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

Malis combs YouTube and other websites for videos, then rates the animals on cuteness and sleepiness scales from 1 to 5. The younger and fluffier the animal, and the harder it fights off slumber, the higher the rating. Some animals are at a disadvantage. In fact, he's never given anything the coveted 5 rating. "I would love to see a 5 animal," he says, "but I don't know what one would look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cute Things Falling Asleep | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...former pop star is allowed to shine. “A hundred years underground / Had to swim across the sea / Oh, when you were my baby,” he sings in “Did you Miss Me.” In addition to their fluffier, somewhat fantastic lyrics, the feel of songs like “Did You Miss Me” and “The Right Place to Fade” is fun and breezy, adhering to the British tradition that blurs pop and rock. “Love Runs Deeper” is another such...

Author: By Roy Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lindsey Buckingham | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...courses, on the other hand, are heavy on calculus, usually so much so that students who don’t have an intense interest don’t bother to take the class. These two poles leave students lacking a middle ground between the courses aimed at concentrators and fluffier Core classes that do little to prepare students for subsequent coursework...

Author: By Ramya Parthasarathy | Title: The Magic of Numbers | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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