Word: precisionism
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In Harvard’s 13-1 win over Cornell on Friday, McAuliffe had no trouble fitting back into the second line, finishing a one-timer from Ingram with precision. Catlin tallied four assists in her new role.
But much of the wobble has been fixed, thanks to a satellite known as the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP. Since July 2001, WMAP has been orbiting in deep space, a million miles from Earth, studying the most ancient light in existence. And in a dramatic reminder that important...
What the satellite found, says Princeton University's David Spergel, a theorist on the WMAP team, "is that the universe can be explained with five numbers." First, the cosmos is 13.7 billion years old, give or take a negligible couple of hundred million years. Second, the first stars turned on...
"It's impossible to say with precision now what the future will hold, just as it was ... on June 6, 1944." BR> ARI FLEISCHER, White House spokesman, on the aftermath of a war in Iraq
What, exactly, is a dud? Well, it’s difficult to define with a great deal of precision, but for simplicity’s sake let’s call a Harvard dud a student in the College who is not performing—academically, athletically, artistically, extracurricularlyâ?...