Word: preciously
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...recent interview with The Crimson, Lewis expressed his opinion that Harvard was a "rare and precious privilege" and that if students were to slow down, they might risk "wasting" their opportunities. While we agree with his assessment of Harvard as a valuable resource, we couldn't disagree more about how students should spend their time. If there has been one upside to the campus debate over career choices, it has been the increasing realization that Harvard may be churning out dangerously one-dimensional individuals. The College does have much to offer that is rare and precious--a first-rate liberal...
...little precious for Republicans to cite these worries, since the notion of investing Social Security funds in the market has been kicked around the G.O.P. for years. And Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin had a nice retort to Greenspan: an independent body would oversee the investments, he said, so "there will be no--zero!--government involvement...I might add that the Federal Reserve Board itself is a very good example...
...this: back in the 1950s, when computers were the size of office cubicles and the most advanced data-storage system came on strips of punched cardboard, several scientists, including a Navy officer named Grace Murray Hopper, begat a standard programming language called COBOL (common business-oriented language). To save precious space on the 80-column punch cards, COBOL programmers used just six digits to render the day's date: two for the day, two for the month, two for the year. It was the middle of the century, and nobody cared much about what would happen at the next click...
...Vietnam changed him," says Fraser. "It impressed on him the idea that time is precious, that you have to make every single minute of every single day count...
...eggs--remain off limits to most of the world's scientists. No governmental body wants to take responsibility for initiating steps that might help redirect the course of future human evolution. These decisions reflect widespread concerns that we, as humans, may not have the wisdom to modify the most precious of all human treasures--our chromosomal "instruction books." Dare we be entrusted with improving upon the results of the several million years of Darwinian natural selection? Are human germ cells Rubicons that geneticists may never cross...