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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Against all odds, my science Core requirement, Science B-47, “Molecules of Life,” is my favorite class this semester. I swore off amino acids and lipids in high school after a nightmarish AP Chemistry experience, but I had one core class left so I picked the one with the best CUE rating and thought I would sit through it quietly...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore | Title: The Core in Real Life | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...Line,” is markedly darker, focusing lyrically as well as visually on human weakness. The opening scenes transport the viewer to a hazy pastoral setting, engulfed in gray mist. A figure comes riding in: half pig, half man; he’s a repulsive amalgamation, a nightmarish figure. Nevertheless, we feel pity as he goes about his solitary life. Engulfed for mysterious reasons by worry, boredom, and heartbreak (a past love is hinted at as he traces the word “Ella” on the frosty windows), his pain is palpable. As the song reaches...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: José González | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...latest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. When the camera lingers on her spoon dipping into a pot of faintly pink sugar, the sweet stuff has never looked more deadly. Rupert Grint also makes his best showing to date as Ron Weasley, and Helena Bonham Carter is electric and nightmarish as Azkaban-escapee Bellatrix Lestrange...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...often that a single Senate subcommittee hearing puts on the table a half-dozen nightmarish scenarios that hardly anyone in Washington is worrying about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nuclear Nightmare | 4/21/2007 | See Source »

...Orthodox patriarchate has been located in this city, formerly known as Constantinople, since the fourth century. Despite pressure from the European Union, the Turkish government argues that opening the Halki school would put it under pressure to allow similar Islamic colleges - a prospect deemed nightmarish by the secularist authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Push to Protect Minority Christians in the Muslim World | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

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