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...Ignores Jiggle Factor”—comes off as an admonishment in this context. “Well,” the headline seems to say to us, like a patronizing teacher, “Ate too much?” Tsk-tsk. 2) Eventful 15-Day Mission for Shuttle Discovery Ends An “eventful” shuttle mission? No way! But besides the unnecessary adjective, this headline is great because it’s one of those linguistic examples of sentences that can go either way. “Discovery” is the name...
...team up to ceonvince him that the website has come alive in a conspiracy to destroy him. When Michael receives a chatroom invitation in lieu of being invited to the website’s V.I.P. launch party in New York, he and Dwight embark on a mission to put temp-turned-corporate manager Ryan in his place. Best Line: Andy, “They say you should never mix business with pleasure. So then explain to me how a putt-putt golf company operates.” —Nayeli E. Rodriguez is a sophomore in Currier House...
...theme: architecture around the world. Our protagonists knew they had happened upon the solution to their twin problems. They would build a gingerbread house that would not only satisfy the common hunger, but would also lift the spirit in the manner of great constructions past. The mission was clear: to create a cathedral, but not just any cathedral: one where spice drops could refract light in such a way as to pierce the hearts of lowly, overworked gingerbread men with love for their candy gods. They would attempt nothing less than the construction of the greatest Gothic cathedral...
NASA's shuttle Atlantis was scheduled for a mission to the International Space Station on Dec. 9, but a faulty fuel gauge caused the launch to be postponed until January at the earliest. If the gauge had been fixed quickly, could the delay have been avoided? No. Blame orbital mechanics...
...graduate students at Dartmouth are on a mission to make the opinions of college campuses more public through a new web polling site called open-vote.com. Discerning the student consensus on issues can be a challenge, the creators of the site say, and their project attempts to provide that service...