Word: randoms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...migrated" during 2003 to Iraq's biggest prison, where the ratio was 75 to 1. Those rules were applied to a prison population that, according to the Schlesinger report, was made up "all too often" of Iraqis who were not valuable targets but bystanders caught in random roundups. Add to that the facts that the Army's intelligence units were poorly trained and badly managed, and the military police units assigned to Abu Ghraib were filled with reservists who showed poor judgment--and some of whom are now the subject of courts-martial. (See above...
...sleep usually consist of no more than a simple image or two. But despite all the mythology that surrounds dream imagery, scientists who have searched for the hidden purpose in dreams haven't had much luck. The consensus among sleep researchers today is that dreams are nothing more than random recycling of bits and pieces of the previous day's events...
...typical credit sequence for a war movie? Maybe. The newest entertainment from French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose most famous project, Amelie, told the story of a young Parisian woman who decided to perform random acts of kindness? Seemingly impossible, but true. Viewers expecting A Very Long Engagement to deliver a similarly light, feel-good experience might quickly have their spirits (and, perhaps, their hankies) dampened by the somber opening scene...
...pilot program—also underway at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Stanford University and the New York Public Library—will begin the daunting task of digitally scanning Harvard University Library’s (HUL) massive library holdings, beginning with some 40,000 volumes. This random selection of content from the Harvard Depository will soon be searchable online at Google Print—a site that harnesses the power of Google’s internet search capabilities for an online library catalog...
...cartoon on the cover of the book, “Today’s Random Medical News from the New England Journal of Panic-Inducing Gobbledygook” by Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman, shows a newscaster at his desk with three multicolored wheels-of-fortune at the top of the screen. After pressing a button on the desk, the newscaster prepares to report the following random result: COFFEE can cause DEPRESSION in TWINS...