Word: minoring
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...oxygenating the blood and pumping it through the body. Studies have shown that microscopic bubbles of air or tiny bits of fat and plaque are often loosed into the bloodstream in the process. Even if they are too small to trigger a full-scale stroke, they may cause minor damage in the cerebral tissue...
These are minor characters in the current indie film George Washington; they're also among the few adults in a movie about kids. But novice writer-director David Gordon Green doesn't consign them to the oblivion of stereotype. He respects all the creatures in his landscape, gets inside them, X-rays their souls. Then he takes pictures of them--images of a rapturous rural subtlety that recalls Terrence Malick's Badlands from 1973, two years before Green was born. By blending vernacular poetry, a pristine visual sense and a keen awareness of children's urges and fears...
...cases), caused perhaps by disturbances in the deep-sleep phase the body needs to get properly refreshed at night. Patients have told me that they feel so heavy in the morning they can hardly get out of bed and that they often find it difficult to concentrate on even minor tasks. For reasons that are not known, women get fibromyalgia seven times as often as men, but the ailment can strike anyone...
...Aside from their major criticisms of collegiate athletics, Shulman and Bowen (who claim to be pro-sport) cannot resist inserting minor anti-athlete barbs into their book. They begin one of section of a chapter on women's sports by quoting a Princeton basketball player: "She was trying to get all up in my face, and I just clocked her. I started hammering her." This quote has no apparent relevance to the chapter, which explains the history of women's athletics. It seems that the authors dug up the most unflattering quote they could find to execute an underhanded attack...
...minor details that cause the overall experience to be subpar, Brian R. Walsh '02 says...