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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diseases and the like. Furthermore, as with any commodity in a free market, some sperm are more equal than others. To that elitist end, each donor must fill out a tedious, two-page questionnaire with questions like: Hair color? Straight hair, curly or wavy? Eye color? Left-handed or right-handed? Jewish ancestry? College? Major? High school? Family illnesses or health issues related to incest? Then I filled out a Mendelian race tree, delineating the race of my grandparents on down. The last question on the sheet, I had to save for later; it asked whether any part...

Author: By Eliot I. Hodges, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Giving the Gift of Life | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...basics are simple: right foot, left foot, repeat as desired. But as anyone who had to cut a swath through regatta spectators this past weekend can attest, it's a jungle out there. To aid the National Geographic Explorer in all of us, here are the four most prolific inhabitants of this particular ecosystem...

Author: By Rich D. Ma, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: How To: Take A Jog | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...done. Sexperts at www.nookie.com advise that for some women "applying too much pressure to the clitoris can be overwhelming--beginners may want to start by holding the clitoris softly between two fingers and moving them in a circular motion gradually increasing the amount of pressure until it feels just right...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...last two digits to the right of your ID number indicate your school affiliation within the university...

Author: By David M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The ID Deconstructed | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...Rubin was awake and using his laptop computer at his desk when Stevens returned to the common room and asked Rubin if his hat was in the bathroom garbage. As Matthew D. Gibson '03, the third roommate, remembers, "Jake was like, 'No, it's right on my desk.'" But when Rubin checked his desk, he saw his hat wasn't where he left it. "We thought it was a prank," Gibson says. Rubin recalls: "I was very perplexed, to say the least, because at that time we hadn't realized anything else was stolen. We thought someone had broken...

Author: By Ben C. Wasserstein, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Waking Up to Crime in Matthews Hall | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

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