Word: fractionalism
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...ambitious is building a successor ship to Cousteau's beloved Calypso, which sank in Singapore in 1996. Calypso II will be 217 ft. long, powered by an innovative turbosail-diesel engine combination. If it is ever built, that is: the $2 million raised from donations so far is a fraction of the $150 million needed...
What I am able to see on this chunk of the Pacific is a minute fraction of what there is to see. At Point Lobos in Carmel, the mist creates false mountains over the water. The waves are humped like porpoises. Kelp, giant forests of seaweed by which Darwin was enthralled, shows only at the top. These plants, which can grow at a rate of 20 in. a day, reach down 100 ft. to granite reefs. The kelp is tethered by stipes-stems, structures that connect the base, or holdfast, to the leaflike blades. Gas-filled floats at the base...
...accept women, and club level tennis remained a male sport." The Harvard Tennis Club has always welcomed undergraduates, both men and women, to try out for the club. Unfortunately, due to the limited resources and court time available to our team, we are only able to take on a fraction of the players who show interest and fill our team through competitive tryouts. Last year, a female player was one of the strongest who came out for the team. Jacqueline A. Newmyer '01 was a key member of the Harvard Tennis Club and played in several intercollegiate matches...
...every 100 new cars wouldn't start, Detroit would be a ghost town. But somehow Silicon Valley keeps booming despite the fact that a significant fraction of the computers it ships either don't work as advertised or don't work at all. In a new Windows magazine survey, some 87 percent of respondents reported that their computers booted up just fine. That sounds pretty good at first glance; but what it really means is that an astounding 13 percent of PCs are either dead on arrival or seriously maimed...
...calculate], you start with how many stars are out there, what fraction of the stars are enough like ours that there would be life," Leigh says. "Even if the odds are reasonably low, there are enough stars out there that it puts the probability up there...