Word: glitch
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Harvard had already agreed to reduce the height of the building, but to no avail; residents simultaneously demanded a smaller building and more parking spaces inside it. The residents are right that 80 spots is not enough, but they should have compromised with Harvard to remedy this small glitch...
Bill Laut, a beefy former construction-company owner, is a guy's guy: he has remodeled every room in his house, knows how to fix any plumbing glitch and savors Monday Night Football with his buddies. Yet when his wife Sheila, a manager at a large banking-equipment company, became pregnant, the Hudson, Ohio, couple decided that Sheila, whose job provides the family's health benefits, would be the breadwinner and Bill would give up his business to stay home and care for the children. Over the past five years, Laut has diapered, clothed, fed and organized play dates...
...launched the program, about 150 people have approached the hospital. Molinuevo says most are sent away happy - they don't even need to be tested because family history shows that their afflicted relative has the more common "sporadic" Alzheimer's, which can't be attributed to a genetic glitch. The Barcelona team - believed to be the only one of its kind in Europe - has caused controversy in Spain. Might a healthy young person given the sentence of Alzheimer's commit suicide? What if an employer or an insurance company got hold of the information that a person was certain...
...only glitch surfaced in the final event of Eastern Sprints—the first varsity Grand Final. Though the Crimson third varsity had suffered its first loss of the season to fellow 3V competition from Wisconsin and the second freshman crew had placed fourth, Harvard established its authority with victories in the second varsity and freshman events...
Does autism start as a glitch in one area of the brain--the brainstem, perhaps--and then radiate out to affect others? Or is it a widespread problem that becomes more pronounced as the brain is called upon to set up and utilize increasingly complex circuitry? Either scenario is plausible, and experts disagree as to which is more probable. But one thing is clear: very early on, children with autism have brains that are anatomically different on both microscopic and macroscopic scales...