Word: mining
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...study-abroad experience is currently a headache of deadlines, paperwork, and endless trips to the registrar. Yet, as I trudge through the slush of Cambridge, eager for the day I step on a plane, sophomore friends of mine at other universities are already in the actual abroad part of their experience—my Facebook newsfeed is flooded daily with photos from Italy, Mexico, and Tanzania...
...time of flux: Mine was the first class to experience the full effects of House randomization, which aimed to end the intensive racial segregation of the Houses. There were attempts to remedy racial disparities, but less attention to gender. Indeed, every time we raised the case for a centralized women’s center, we were referred to the Dean of Coeducation, Karen Avery, whose job was to ensure that “women’s stuff” didn’t interfere with more important work. The higher-up deans and officials were...
...their databases, including agricultural and parks agencies, according to Peter Simonson, executive director of the state's ACLU chapter. Establishing what kinds of information is being processed by fusion centers can be difficult, Simonson says, since they do not store the records, or even collect them, but simply mine them through digital gateways. Records are accessed, not retained as they would be in specific case or investigative files. Simonson says the New Mexico chapter of the ACLU has filed several open records requests seeking to find out what kind of information is being reviewed, but has been stymied...
...acting on dopamine receptors, varenicline also may change the way some people experience joy. Last year, the writer Derek de Koff (who was a longtime smoker and also - full disclosure - an acquaintance of mine) wrote a harrowing New York magazine account of his experience with varenicline. He experienced awful hallucinations while taking the drug - he wrote about speaking to a man in a bar who turned out to be a shadow cast by a potted plant. De Koff also became despondent. "I wondered whether [varenicline] was zapping my brain's pleasure-delivery system to such a degree that not only...
...Corbu Pops” defies boundaries. “Artists like to give their talks the shape of a liquid, pour them into a container, to ‘fill,’” said Pope.L in a talk before the performance. “Mine either spill over or peter out.” If the same metaphor is applied to the effect “Corbu Pops” had, the performance splashed the container off the table. Placed in a corner of the Carpenter Center lobby, the set was a large and angled board painted...