Word: half
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...council seemed equally thrilled by the developments. For about a half-hour before the vote, councillors complimented State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios '90, State Sen. Robert E. Travaglini, the city manager, and the Friends of Magazine Beach for completing a new joint management and license agreement between the city and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to renovate facilities at the beach...
...going to do "whatever it took to get into the college." He bettered his SAT scores, even moved to Ireland for a few months to test the waters. Now in his first year at Trinity, he is delighted to be receiving "an Ivy League education for about half the price...
GENE BLUES Gene therapy has been going through a rough patch lately. First, a young patient died in the middle of his gene-therapy trial. And last week the Washington Post reported that half a dozen heart patients have died while undergoing a different form of gene therapy. These patients were already desperately ill, however, and it's not clear that the treatments had anything to do with their death. Gene therapy shows great promise, but anyone who is considering it should know that it's still very experimental...
...indicated that the tape provided no answers. Evidence from the first "black box" had established that the Boeing 767's engines were turned off at 33,000 feet, precipitating a plunge of 16,000 feet in just 40 seconds before the plane steeply climbed for a mile and a half and then finally plunged into the ocean. That shifted the locus of the investigation - and most conspiratorial conjecture - to the cockpit, and the factors that might have prompted the crew to turn off the engines. But the "black box" tape of the pilot and copilot's last conversation proved disappointing...
...sleep 24 in a half-filled barracks, in too-short steel bunk beds. (We make them once, painstakingly, according to specifications, and sleep on top of the covers so as never to have to do it again.? It's an old trick.)? The night is filled with snores and somnolent murmuring ("Jennifer.? Bring me the iced tea.")? When you snap awake in the middle of the night, it's really hard to tell where you've landed...