Word: fractionalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep coming back to Shakespeare? The hard truth is that most modern theatergoers can fully grasp only a fraction of his dense Elizabethan dialogue. Critics, moreover, seem intent on making the experience even more intimidating: they become stern schoolmasters when judging those who dare tackle the iambic pentameter. Alec Baldwin's brawny, quite watchable Macbeth at New York City's Public Theatre last winter drew testy reviews. Still the show was a sellout...
Hanssen praised the Bunting Fellowships as a welcome opportunity for women at Harvard, where she said the fraction of female tenured professors is "disappointing...
...team or even the Bulgarian soccer team (for those who remember USA '94). And yet those potential objects of national pride seem lilliputian in the face of constantly rising prices, falling incomes, lack of opportunities and the plethora of other problems. It is a pity that only a small fraction of the bright kids who leave the country ever come back, apparently finding immigrant life a better alternative to life in our troubled Bulgaria...
...discovery that rewrites two textbooks at once. That's evidently what happened last week at a scientific conference in Japan. An international team of 120 physicists reported that the neutrino, a subatomic particle long thought to be utterly without mass, actually weighs in at a tiny fraction of the mass of the electron (until now, the lightest particle known). For elementary-particle physicists, that means their most basic theories will have to be rewritten; for astronomers, it means that the missing "dark matter" believed to pervade the cosmos and far outweigh the visible stars may no longer be missing...
...score at H-Y-P was due in part to the fact that the entire Yale and Princeton teams were shaved and tapered, ready to swim their best times in this meet. Harvard, however, chose to save its best times for Easterns and NCAAs. Only a fraction of the team would continue on to postseason events and, as a result, only those swimmers for whom H-Y-P was the last important meet were shaved and tapered...