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...their personal motivations have won them all a full day hunched over an answer grid with a number 2 pencil and a chance at their common dream to become doctors...
...building is a cubic volume from which the curved studios spaces are hung on a diagonal axis. There is extensive cantilevering and a reliance on reinforced concrete to create large areas of open space. Unlike traditional structures, which rely on load-bearing walls, the Carpenter Center relies on a grid of load-bearing columns. As a result, each of the five levels of the building is designed to be configurable through movable partitions that extend well short of the expansive ceiling...
...game of chess dominates the show’s set, whose back wall is covered with a game board-like metal grid. The set, as Downer describes it, is “removed from reality,” and underlines Florence’s realization that “what she’s doing is basically fake.” Florence leaves Freddie Trumper for his Russian counterpart, played by Benjamin D. Margo ’04-05, who is also a Crimson editor...
...radar screen was rapidly turning epidemic, particularly among gay men and drug addicts. Yet no one agreed on what to call it. Because the disease critically weakened the immune system and was often accompanied by a rare cancer, it had been labeled gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID, by some people, gay cancer by others. It wasn't, however, restricted to gays. At the meeting, a less exclusive name was suggested: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The acronym had staying power--as has the epidemic. More than 22 million people worldwide have died of AIDS over the past two decades...
...Melendez shouted back: "Sounds like they're trying to flank you guys." Unbeknownst to the enemy, U.S. scouts were now working feverishly to come up with "grid references"- coordinates for Mitchell's squad to start firing at. Two more mortar rounds landed in a cloud of dust about 30 meters out to the right. Over the rattle of Iraqi machine gun fire, the scouts announced they had a grid: "six dash four dash dash two dash six dash seven, niner dash two dash three dash three dash five...