Word: princetons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bezos had graduated from Princeton University, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science. The field was unplanned: he had chosen Princeton for its legendary physics department. Shortly after arriving, however, he discovered that he wasn't the smartest guy in the world after all. He felt outclassed by the physics jocks and gravitated to comp...
Bezos realized he desperately wanted to start his own online bookstore. First he talked it over with MacKenzie. She too had graduated from Princeton, but six years after him; they met at Shaw, where she worked as a researcher. An English-literature major at the university, she had been novelist Toni Morrison's assistant and now had begun a novel of her own. MacKenzie was all for the adventure...
Quantum physics demolishes the conventional concept of time in its own peculiar ways. Measured at short enough durations, space-time loses its apparently smooth, continuous structure, devolving into what Princeton physicist John Wheeler calls "quantum foam." The orderly flow of events may really be as much an illusion as the flickering frames of a movie. And according to independent physicist Barbour's new book, even the apparent sequence of the flickers is illusory...
Earlier in the month UNH posted another convincing win when it took out Princeton on the road, 74-61. The Wildcats' only other game in December was a 61-59 overtime home loss to Boston University...
...Wildcats have been lead by two sophomore forwards. Against Princeton, Aubrey Danen lead UNH with a career-high 22 points, while classmate Anna Matthias netted 17 points and 9 rebounds against Northeastern...