Word: pining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They'd kick our butts," Elizabeth M. Pine '97, the Club's Vice-President, said...
President Reagan got hoots when he once claimed that trees cause air pollution, but intrepid University of Florida researchers have now confirmed that the Gipper was onto something. A new study of terpenes, a component of the gooey resin in pine tree sap, shows that at least some trees actually do contribute to pollution by reacting with other pollutants and sunlight to produce ozone. While this is not yet cause for alarm, they add, the situation could get worse as temperatures rise because of the "greenhouse effect...
...said. "I logged into fas nearly instantaneously. PINE loaded up right after I typed it on the command line. It's almost the way computers are supposed to work...
...Steen has his way, the slowdowns and reliability problems that students have come to expect--the three minute waits for PINE or the routine crashes before a CS50 problem set is due--could finally be a thing of the past...
Everything from launching PINE to accessing home pages on the World Wide Web server fas-www should become a more pleasant experience. And if that is the case, students, faculty and administrators will be much happier users...