Word: gee
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...story’s international scope made him realize he could affect global issues, when he saw an injustice and said to himself, “Gee, I’m the media. I’m sure there’s something I could...
...Veldt” centers on the newest gee-whiz gadget that an overworked father of the “Father Knows Best” ilk (Jonah C. Priour ’09) gets for his parentally-neglected kids (Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07 and Zachary B. S. Sniderman ’09): a playroom which perfectly reproduces any place one could wish to go. It comes to represent the children’s resentment toward their parents, eventually allowing their emotions to take murderous form, despite the worries of their mother (Victoria J. Crutchfield...
...salary statistics come from a new study by The Chronicle of Higher Education and are drawn from schools’ tax filings. The study found that the highest-paid university chief—not including retirement packages for departing administrators—was Vanderbilt President E. Gordon Gee, who earned $1.17 million...
...side, in effect, against the evil ones; the overall attitude of the millions of people in Afghanistan and Iraq who have gone to the polls and risked their own lives in order to vote and participate in newly created democracies, and suddenly the United States says, Well, gee, it's too tough in Iraq, we're going home. You cannot separate out Iraq from that broader global war on terror. Bin Laden has made the point repeatedly that Iraq is now the central front in the war on terror...
...floresiensis are found in any modern human." He argues that the asymmetry in the skull was due not to disease but to the skeleton being buried for thousands of years in 30 feet of sediment, which deformed the fossil. (Thorne insists the deformity must have happened before death.) Henry Gee, a senior editor at Nature who was responsible for overseeing publication of the original Flores article, calls the PNAS paper "very interesting" but argues that it "cherry-picks the evidence" to support the microcephaly theory. Ultimately, he says, "I don't think the new work dents the contention that Homo...