Word: randomized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strike her as odd that at the clubs she visited, every presentation had been led by a man. I ask whether this is a source for concern for her. But she says that, at least for now, she's willing to shrug off the disparity as the product of random chance...
Christopher Reeve says his mother gave up hope in the first dark hours after his paralyzing fall from a horse and urged doctors to pull the plug. "They told her to calm down, to wait and see what would happen," Reeve writes in his just-published (by Random House) memoir, "Still Me," which recounts how he battled back from the May 1995 riding accident that severed his spinal cord. Reeve, 45, writes of how he, too, almost gave up hope, telling his wife, Dana, "Maybe we should let me go." She persuaded the "Superman" actor to go on by responding...
...thousands of genes that directly and indirectly influence behavior. A peek inside the locked freezer in the hallway outside his own lab reveals a rapidly expanding stash of plastic tubes that contain DNA samples from more than 1,760 volunteers. Among them: gay men and their heterosexual brothers, a random assortment of novelty seekers and novelty avoiders, shy children and now a growing collection of cigarette smokers...
...recognized and even those I didn't. And the result? It actually turned out to be quite a success. I reintroduced myself to lots of people I once knew, I met people I recognized but had never been introduced to and I even spoke a bit with some random passers-by. Though it was more of a psychology experiment than a real social situation, it reminded me that most people are very friendly but often have their guard up in public...
With the exit of this year's seniors and the ascent of the first years from the Yard to the houses, Harvard's residential system will become fully randomized for the first time in the history of the College. When the class of '98 leaves these hallowed homes, very few remaining students will have a personal memory of a time when the houses were chosen--even of the non-ordered, somewhat random variety of choice...