Word: fractions
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...grand brilliance which exists in this world. Too often we have gotten lost in our own glory, thinking ourselves much too large for the rest of the world. Harvard is but one institution; the complex is but one think tank, the students and the faculty are but one fraction of the population. And one institution, one think tank, one fraction of the population cannot alone enforce change, cannot alone make the world go round...
...sure to check out Harvard's Technology Product Center (TPC) before going to a chain store. The TPC now features a new "closeout" area which sells floor demo models, returned items and scratch-and-dents at a fraction of their original cost...
Most New Trier kids who smoke pot--by all accounts more than three-fifths of the student body--wouldn't be caught dead in a jacket like that. Only a fraction of New Trier's pot smokers--the denizens of the Corner among them--view getting high as the main part of their identity. For most, marijuana is an ancillary pleasure of growing up comfortably in the '90s, not the least bit incompatible with varsity athletics, the spring musical or advanced-placement chemistry. After all, most of the kids at New Trier will go on to succeed, just as their...
Voting is only a fraction of the concept of political participation. People participate in the political process by contributing money to candidates and parties, by volunteering in political offices and by wearing buttons and displaying bumper stickers. It is often the case that the more one invests in the political process, the more one receives in dividends. Too prove that point, just compare neighborhoods and ask whose potholes are being fixed, whose infrastructure is being rehabilitated and even who gets visits from their representative. The fact that voters choose not to vote should signal that our politics is in need...
...discovery may turn out to have repercussions on a far grander scale. Subsequent experiments with superfluid helium-3 have lent support to the theory that the creation of hypothetical structures called cosmic strings a fraction of a second after the Big Bang led eventually to the formation of the galaxies...