Word: perfectible
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...website CollegeCandy.com, a student columnist from the University of Colorado at Boulder noted Monday that nerves about the outbreak may get students off the hook for skipping class. "While the rest of the world is freaking out, I couldn't be happier," she wrote. "The swine flu is the perfect excuse for just about anything this week and I plan to milk it for all it's worth...
...accomplishment for a school that had previously not given much focus to student life,” Kidd said. Campus Life Fellow Jason B. McCoy ’08 said that Kidd will be strongly missed in the Student Life and Activities Office, noting that she strikes the perfect balance between humor and pragmatism. “She’s very strong and doesn’t get pushed around and has the students’ best interest at heart,” said Program Coordinator for Student Events and Activities Haining Gouinlock...
...says Jennifer Stroka, a veterinary technician and mother of a 4-year-old girl. "It's like one-stop shopping. It looks great, and will make my life easier." If there are enough moms out there thinking like Stroka, Toys "R" Us may be gift-wrapping itself the perfect present: profits...
...Mukhopadhyay says he loved studying chemistry but was wary of becoming a pure chemist. Yet, because his father had been a field geologist in India, he did not want to study geology either. “Marrying chemistry to understanding the earth,” he says, provided the perfect fit and allowed him to reconcile his interests. Mukhopadhyay says he remembers his interest in noble gas geochemistry being piqued as a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology. An advisor was using the interplanetary dust particles that have been settling on the Earth’s surface throughout...
...completion of the 2009 NFL draft on Sunday. Pizzotti left his mark on the Harvard record books, placing himself on a short list of players to have a hand in three Ivy Championships. The fifth-year senior watched from the sidelines as Fitzpatrick led the Crimson to a perfect 10-0 season in 2004, then led two back-to-back championship teams of his own in 2007 and 2008. The Jets used their first-round pick to claim quarterback Mark Sanchez from USC, so Pizzotti will start down the depth chart. Of course, Pizzotti began his collegiate career...