Word: pang
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While older generations may look at this classy Kong with a pang of nostalgia, the freshmen know nothing else. They will continue to lose fake IDs at the door, drink Scorpion Bowls until they black out, and devour scallion pancakes at 2 a.m. in blissful ignorance of the dive it once...
...willing to accept someone who's going to make me unhappy. But there are days when I have a physical need to go to sleep and wake up with someone there." Mary Mayotte, 49, has a successful bicoastal career as a public-speaking coach. But she admits the occasional pang of regret. "There was a point where I had men coming out of my ears," she says. "I don't think I was so nice to some of them. Every now and then I wonder if God is punishing me. Sometimes I look back and say, 'I wish...
...maim scores, possibly hundreds, of Americans. For more than four years, he has been developing remote-control devices that Sunni insurgents use to detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the roadside bombs that are the No. 1 killer of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The only time he ever felt a pang of regret was in the spring of 2006, when he heard that the Pentagon, in a bid to fight the growing IED menace, had roped in a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abdallah, an electronics engineer by training, once dreamed of studying for a Ph.D. there...
...that students will be able to understand fellow students’ needs. Some things on our wish-list of features, however, require official University support. Students on their own could not, for instance, produce a Web site with GPS maps of shuttle locations (see http://www.yale.transloc-inc.com for a rare pang of New Haven-safety-school jealousy) or a more intuitive course selection tool. Unless FAS IT suddenly supports a student-run portal, we can only hope that the powers that be reinvent my.harvard before it turns eight...
...discourage women from having them. But when the discouragement carries the force of law, it must be based on fact. Pain in adults is something of a mystery and a quandary; aware and articulate, we can describe what we feel - a sharp stab, a dull ache, a twinge, a pang, an agony - and yet still physicians argue over what to do and how to treat. Unlocking the secrets of the womb is surely harder, and the stakes for the mother high as well...