Word: holing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...master's degree in zoology at Johns Hopkins, but increasing family responsibilities caused her to abandon her quest for a doctorate. For a few years she would teach zoology at the University of Maryland, continuing her studies in the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Mass. It was there, in her early 20s, that she first saw--and became enchanted with--the enormous mysteries...
...parents met while working on the Ferranti Mark I, the first computer sold commercially. They taught him to think unconventionally; he'd play games over the breakfast table with imaginary numbers (what's the square root of minus 4?). He made pretend computers out of cardboard boxes and five-hole paper tape and fell in love with electronics. Later, at Oxford, he built his own working electronic computer out of spare parts and a TV set. He also studied physics, which he thought would be a lovely compromise between math and electronics. "Physics was fun," he recalls. "And in fact...
...seconds after the Wildcats had tied the game. Senior defenseman Nicki Luongo--who had stopped the action minutes earlier after taking an elbow to the head--took the puck at center point and sent a centering pass on net that junior winger Tina Carrabba tipped through Springer's five-hole...
...Dartmouth defense, and Shewchuk put the game out of reach 30 seconds after Mleczko's goal. Sophomore defenseman Julie Rando, handling from behind the goal, fed Shewchuk in the slot, and the nation's leading goal scorer skated around a defender into the right post before finding a hole in the corner for the score...
...came out with a tough server, and that really put us in an early hole during the first game," Guilianelli said...