Word: repairable
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...packed dining hall, in what he called a “slightly less inhibited spirit” than he might have had last week. Summers acknowledged his rocky relationship with some members of the Faculty and expressed remorse that he “had not been able to repair the rifts” that had emerged. Still, he said, “I received the most important vote of confidence from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that a man could receive this fall, when Professor Elisa New agreed to marry me.” ‘VERY OPTIMISTIC?...
...Reports of a missing projector in Emerson Hall sent police to the scene last Saturday. The normal two had been reduced to one. Neither Media Services nor the building supervisor knew of the machine’s whereabouts. Whether it was stolen or simply sent off to repair remains unknown. The case remains open...
...love it. It has long been suggested that there is a link between cancer prevention and soy and broccoli - plus other cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower. Now investigators think they know the reason: a laboratory test found that chemicals in these foods can increase the levels of proteins that repair damaged DNA and so lower the risk of developing breast and prostate cancer. STICK TO PECKS ON THE CHEEKS Parents who want to keep their kids on the straight and narrow just got some support. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal last week, teenagers who French...
...renewed, those who live there year-round will continue to have their aspirations for peace thwarted. Haunting the island is the possibility that neither side in the conflict is able to rise above its worst instincts, and that two decades of ferocious conflict may have brutalized the island beyond repair. Says a European diplomat in Colombo: "Killing is how Sri Lanka does politics." Father Gnanapragasam Peter, who runs a mission for the Catholic aid charity Caritas, concurs. "Neither side," he says flatly, "cares for the people...
...Before he went into surgery, he painted a dotted line and scissors on the bad leg and wrote, "Cut here." On Valentine's Day last year, Dr. Roman Hayda from Brooke and Dr. Douglas Smith, an ankle surgeon at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, worked for 11 hours to repair his right ankle. Although he lost the foot and nine inches of his left leg, his right side was intact thanks to three pins holding the ankle together. Subsequent operations removed most of the shrapnel in his body, to Braddock's dismay. "I was hoping to put a magnet...