Word: nosing
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Thirteen seconds. Enough time to spit. To blow your nose. And, as Harvard proved, to win a Beanpot...
...being of other areas. If the U.S. were still a sparsely populated country with vast wilderness areas, it would matter less what one individual did with his or her property. Says Erik Meyers of the Environmental Law Institute: "The freedom to swing your arms stops at your neighbor's nose, and what has happened is that noses have got a lot closer together." In such circumstances, it seems odd to pay people to pull their punches...
...taken to Cambridge City Hospital, where he was treated and released for a cut on his nose, a hospital official said...
...doesn't seem to be hurt, except for a small laceration to the nose," said Brian M. O'Regan, the first firefighter to reach...
Then there is the problem that haunts all studies of "innate" sex differences: the possibility that the observed differences are really the result of lingering cultural factors. Girls' academic achievement, for example, as well as apparent aptitude and self-esteem, usually takes a nose dive at puberty. Unless nature has selected for smart girls and dumb women, something is going very wrong at about the middle-school level. Part of the problem may be that males, having been the dominant sex for a few millenniums, still tend to prefer females who make them feel stronger and smarter. Any girl...