Word: robin
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Mattel, the maker of the Uno card game, is sponsoring the national event in conjunction with Comic Relief--a community service organization founded by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal...
...would simulate such a cosmic crack-up and let the scientists watch it play out. As the investigators predicted, the planet--roughly half the size of Earth--was annihilated by the collision, surrounding Earth with a Saturnesque ring of rubble that coalesced into a sphere. "We expected this," says Robin Canup, a Colorado research associate involved in the study. "It was no surprise that a moon formed...
...know a few little nooks and crannies," said Robin Murray '69, a reference assistant in Widener library...
Reflecting upon the atmosphere in OCS's basement, where applicants stood in line to hand in the 16 copies of each application, Robin S. Goldstein '98 said that "people are nervous." He added that "the nature of this entire [application] process is to make you nervous...
...Robin Hood in reverse," George Church pondered whether he should collect Social Security payments he doesn't need, at the expense of the working poor [VIEWPOINT, Aug. 18]. But he conveniently failed to mention that the working poor also receive Social Security pensions, and many of those contributing relatively little receive proportionately greater benefits than those who have paid in much more to the system. Moreover, the great majority of those receiving proportionately less are not millionaires but ordinary people with incomes under $100,000, and the money withheld from their paychecks could have been better invested privately. There...