Word: papers
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...crowds of dressed-up high school kids scampering around taking photos, playing football, and reveling in Harvard’s grandeur. Of course, none of these fawning high schoolers could have been mistaken for one of us world-weary college students facing the fourth week of psets and paper deadlines...
When you walk into Ticknor, one of the two officials (presumably associated with FAS Donor Relations) hands you three pieces of paper after carefully marking down your attendance; one sheet has information about your particular donor, the second has example thank-you notes, and the last is blank, scrap. Then they motion to the boxes full of cards and envelopes and the boxes of pizza. Take one, take one, they say about both...
...evidence of hormonal imbalances that could have resulted in the real thing. The relevant areas of both mummies are missing, which has hitherto made it impossible to settle the question. (Tut's penis, however, which is present though not attached to the body, is "well developed," according to the paper, casting further doubt on the theory of hormone problems.) (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...doesn't take much for cooks to become obsessed with competition. The dining public already tends to think in sports terms anyway. Every city magazine has a "best of" issue whose every category is hotly debated. The stars the local paper gives out make or break restaurants by telling uncertain diners with limited money to spend where they can blow it with the minimum risk. Chefs like to say that they just want to feed people, or, more wussily still, "make my guests happy." But the truth is that they got into the business because they were creative and driven...
...counter Bordry's evocation of judicial objectivity. In 2005, seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong attacked the credibility of Bordry's labs after an article in the French sports daily l'Equipe said preserved samples of his 1998 and 1999 races had tested positive for doping. "The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty," Armstrong said via his website - one of the many swipes at the lab he's taken over the years. Bordry proposed a second testing, but Armstrong dismissed the idea, claiming the samples had already been improperly...