Word: kind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite obvious to all of us that of all the very qualified outside candidates, none of them approached his combination of abilities, skills and character that we thought we really need," Cox said. "He's the kind of person who combines the skills and intellectual competence you expect in a university with hands on experience...
...quite obvious to all of us that of all the very qualified outside candidates, none of them approached his combination of abilities, skills and character that we thought we really need," Cox said. "He's the kind of person who combines the skills and intellectual competence you expect in a university with hands on experience...
...sign over the office copier is the kind of Dilbertesque humor one might see anywhere in cubicle land. But in a warren of basement rooms under Princeton University's engineering quad, the meaning is more, well, meaningful. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, after all, explores how the human mind affects machines. Anomalies is the key word: something different, abnormal, peculiar or not easily classified. In this case, they are the elusive powers of consciousness. Can the emanations of the brain really make the copier malfunction? Or maybe turn on the lights or even cause airplanes to fall from...
...safe in summer when school is out and their parents? work weeks continue unrelenting. The older children at the day camp were away at the time, touring the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, prompting Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of that sad shrine, to try to make a kind of insane sense of this installment of America?s recent ravaging by men and guns and news choppers. "It's ironic that the 20 children were here learning about man's inhumanity to man, when their own day camp became a target of such hatred," Hier said. Irony doesn?t begin...
...famed track, I slid down into a steel cage that had a motor attached to it and some wheels sticking out the sides. The car was kind of like a convertible without sides or a bottom. They called it a Formula Four. Formula Three, I guessed, was the one Fred Flintstone...