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Word: preferments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good to hear many students planning to share it by entering "public service" in one of three forms: financial contribution (apolitical donations to soup kitchens or inner-city programs), political office and direct service provision involving daily and face-to-face contact with clients. Overwhelmingly, however, Harvard students prefer the first two forms of public service and neglect the third kind. This is dangerous. Consider these analogies...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: The Personal Touch | 5/28/1999 | See Source »

...definition of obesity (about 66 million Americans today weigh 30% more than they should). So it was no surprise that sales of Xenical, the diet pill that just won FDA approval, exploded across the Net last week. There is, it seems, no shortage of Doritos-gobbling geeks who would prefer to fight flab without doing anything more strenuous than clicking a mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Drug Flies In Cyberspace | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Personally, unless my curiosity really gets the better of me, I'm planning not to enter my picks online. Don't get me wrong. I'm coming to this party, and I'm going to tear it up on the dance floor. But I guess I prefer the eyes-met-across-the-room tradition to the whole compatibility-query-analysis-advanced-search-engin e thingy anyway. Anyone who still wants me can find me at the Roxy. Paul H. Freedman '99 is a computer science concentrator living off campus...

Author: By Paul H. Freedman, | Title: Database of Desires | 5/21/1999 | See Source »

Personally, unless my curiosity really gets the better of me, I'm planning not to enter my picks online. Don't get me wrong. I'm coming to this party, and I'm going to tear it up on the dance floor. But I guess I prefer the eyes-met-across-the-room tradition to the whole compatibility-query-analysis-advanced-search-engine thingy anyway. Anyone who still wants me can find me at the Roxy...

Author: By Paul H. Freedman, | Title: Database of Desire | 5/21/1999 | See Source »

...recorded and stored on my hard drive. While the sound quality is billed as "near CD," I couldn't tell the difference. I quickly set to work cherry picking our CD collection for my favorite songs. I can now play tunes from my own playlist, or randomly if I prefer. This is terrifically liberating, since it frees up my CD drive for other, uh, work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coinless JukeBox | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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