Word: masses
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...head of another theocratic state - one whose agents in this country had committed devastating crimes against hundreds of thousands of young Americans - came to the U.S. and received a warm welcome from President Bush, the national press and most of the American people. He even got to say Mass before a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium...
...industry's hottest contest is to develop a mass-market electric vehicle, and the Paris show has 19 of them on display. Most are versions of the same system: well-insulated cars with electric batteries that plug into regular outlets at home or at charging stations on the street, a little like filling the tank. Batteries would recharge in a few hours (about six hours in the 110-volt U.S. or about half that time in 220-volt Europe) and run for about 100 miles when full. Executives are betting that range will suffice in cities, where people use cars...
...month intervention, all the girls who read books had lost weight, but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight and height used to measure obesity, by .71, compared with .33 in the Charlotte group an average .05 increase among the nonreaders...
...metropolis. Our campus is not “the real world”—and the same paternalism that prohibits us from using our fireplaces or appliances in our dorms out of an attention to safety should be directed at ensuring our protection as we stroll from Mass. Ave. to our dorms along the Charles. Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House...
...translate enough and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature,” Engdahl said. “The ignorance is restraining.” Engdahl added that American writers are “too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture” and that “you can’t get away from the fact that Europe is still the center of the literary world.” But in interviews yesterday, English professors at Harvard responded heatedly to the accusations, calling Engdahl’s comment misguided and uninformed...