Word: lint
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...whole concept of interviews is bizarre; the point of the thing is for people whose sole purpose is to be judgmental to judge you in a situation in which everything from your posture to the lint you forgot to pick off your jacket lapel is being actively scrutinized. Great eye contact? A perfect 10! Ladies—legs crossed demurely at ankles? 10! Limp handshake? Unfortunate, 8. Cell phone go off? Sorry, back to square...
Monday is uniform day. Stacie K. Persons ’02-’03, an Air Force cadet, has to get up a little earlier than usual. “When you go to bed [before uniform days] you make sure everything’s shined and lint-free,” she says. Monday, Oct. 7, was the day President Bush gave a key speech about military preparedness for a war in Iraq. Because of his speech, that Monday was also the day the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice organized a 300-person anti-war rally...
...high-tech gadgets and tests won't matter a bit if evidence isn't meticulously gathered at the scene of a crime. It's the little things that count-a stray hair, a piece of lint, a smudge of mud. This trail of tiny crumbs could ultimately lead straight to the killer...
FIBERS What looks to the eye like a bit of lint actually may be a forest of clues. Scientists microscopically comb samples for human and animal hair, clothing threads, carpeting and even plant material to identify everything there and perhaps place a suspect at the scene of the crime...
...transplant said they would not recommend it to others, citing deteriorating health and no lasting financial benefits $9 billion a month is how much it could cost the U.S. to wage war against Iraq, according to a new congressional study 4,799 people provided samples of their belly button lint to help an Australian scientist complete his study of the phenomenon 60% of British children between ages 7 and 16 know what an Internet homepage is, according to a recent study 9% of the children knew what the preface of a book...