Word: instructive
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...being able to turn off your phone while it is ringing in lecture. As we know, regular women can profit from the wisdom of celebrities in myriad ways. We have learned about the glories of Scientology, kaballah, and emotional cheating, all from these rarified personages. However, they can also instruct in eternal maxims, like the law of comparisons, for example, which states that no matter what size you are, you always look smaller and skinnier next to a large bag. ESSENTIALS FOR MAKING THIS TREND WORK IN REAL LIFE: 1) Make sure that the bag is large but also highly...
...becoming a reality.Little did we know when we came here that these stellar professors and this incomparable education would be kept at arms length from us by an unfortunate institution, guarded by a team of generally incompetent graduate students who presume to have the authority and the expertise to instruct and grade. These people, barely older than we are, control our lives for several hours each week. Yes, my friends, I speak of that peculiar and misguided aspect of a Harvard education so misrepresented in the brochures and misapplied in practice—the section and its accompanying TF.The section...
...Sixties teletypewriters, radar blips showing "hostile Soviet sorties" and air-raid target maps of the world (all donated by the Ministry of Defence) re-create the atmosphere of the atomic age. The mood shifts from the terrifying to the ridiculous in the onsite cinemas, where plummy BBC voices calmly instruct the nation on how to protect their homes against the big one. Sandbags, they proffer, would do nicely. Depressing? Not everyone thinks so. For $1,445 you can hire the licensed wedding venue to get hitched, but be warned: there could be fallout. Open seasonally, from Easter weekend...
...Sixties teletypewriters, radar blips showing "hostile Soviet sorties" and air-raid target maps of the world (all donated by the Ministry of Defence) re-create the atmosphere of the atomic age. The mood shifts from the terrifying to the ridiculous in the onsite cinemas, where plummy BBC voices calmly instruct the nation on how to protect their homes against the big one. Sandbags, they proffer, would do nicely. Depressing? Not everyone thinks so. For $1,445 you can hire the licensed wedding venue to get hitched, but be warned: there could be fallout. Open seasonally, from Easter weekend...
Barth added that researchers did not instruct the children to think in terms of numbers—the subjects did so on their...