Word: retrospective
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...never seen that before.'" The white haze made the small white hull of the Ehime Maru hard to distinguish. Waddle did not linger, though, since he was eager to impress his guests. He ordered the ship to dive deep and then rocket back up to the surface. In retrospect he concedes he was pushing ahead too quickly. "I didn't give the men the time they needed to do their jobs. I was so confident in my abilities and what I had seen, I was convinced the ship was safe to carry out those maneuvers." None of his men challenged...
...cells, by contrast, are plentiful and easy to harvest--just ask anyone who has had liposuction. They are also rich in stem cells--not so surprising, in retrospect, since bone marrow and fat develop from the same embryonic tissue. Not only did the researchers get stem cells from liposuctioned human fat, they also made them grow into bone, muscle and cartilage cells--a sign that more ambitious tissue engineering is not out of the question...
Jennifer R. Pippins '96, who is graduating this June from the Medical school, says that in retrospect, she feels she made the right choice by deciding to attend Harvard Medical School...
...many of the 6,000 members, we wonder, voted for Marcia Gay Harden as Best Supporting Actress? In "Pollock," a film that has earned all of $3 million at the box office, she played Jackson Pollock's nattering, long-suffering wife Lee Krasner. In retrospect, and by the curious logic pertaining to Oscar, the award made sense. The Academy loves actresses whose roles demand they abase themselves in obscure accents. An underdog role can guarantee a victory in an election when most of the voters are actors, and in a time when serious acting is considered a mix of attitude...
That was the question put forth-rather smugly, in retrospect-on the Princeton athletics web site two weeks ago. At the time, the Ivy League men's basketball season was entering its final full weekend with four teams still mathematically in contention for the league title...