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...thing I really think about these fellowships based on GPA is that you have to take it with a grain of salt," Goldstein said. "People take all different classes. Of course I'm honored to have received...
...notice, nor is our numerical placement worthy of the staff's concern. The entire survey, including the social rating that the staff focuses on, was seriously flawed. Those determining the rating need not have attended Harvard nor even have set foot on the campus. To assign their opinion a grain of salt is generous...
...going against grain," he says. "These issues are not as easy to articulate, but they are the issues that will really change people's lives on campus...
...ever present stench--the overpowering smell from Seaboard's 40,000 hogs closely confined in 44 metal buildings, where exhaust fans continuously pump out tons of pungent ammonia, mixed with tons of grain dust and fecal matter, scented with the noxious odor of hydrogen sulfide (a poisonous gas produced by decaying manure that smells like rotten eggs), all combined with another blend of aromas wafting from five cesspits each 25 ft. deep and the size of a football field. They are, in effect, open-air sewage ponds, and 75 ft. below lies the Ogallala aquifer, which provides drinking and irrigation...
...Like other comets, Tempel-Tuttle is, in effect, a dirty snowball that heats up as it approaches the sun and boils off some of its "dirt," which consists largely of particles, some pea size, a few the size of baseballs but most no larger than a grain of sand...