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According to Hankins, McCormick is currently in negotiations with the Egyptian government over second-hand mummies. Hankins added that his friend hopes to use information gleaned from these mummies to determine early settlement patterns and the ethnic make-up of Europe. “The marriage between health and history is something that has been occasionally attempted...but [McCormick] seems to be doing it really, really, really well,” Hankins says...
...days, Cannes is the center of the serious movie world. And part of the fun of the festival is predicting which films, from among the 19 in competition, will be chosen as best by the Jury. This involves much second-hand psychoanalyzing of the ten Jury members: Who will impose his or her will? Tarantino? The strong-minded British actress Tilda Swinton? The American doyenne Kathlene Turner? Or Hong Kong maestro Tsui Hark...
...then, based upon my second-hand understanding of introductory psych classes, I began to think that perhaps I was subconsciously resistant to beginning a thesis. One of the major virtues of a senior thesis, I think, is that it distracts you from the fact that you’re almost done with college. In my youth, whenever I was struck by a foot cramp, my father would tell me to pinch my lip. Although this seems counterproductive and potentially masochistic, the trick works: The lip pain distracts you from the foot pain. The thesis process works in the same...
This upgrade was the QRAC’s first since second-hand Nautilus equipment was installed in the 1970s, according to Jeremy L. Gibson, who also works for Office of Physical Resources and Planning and was on hand for yesterday’s opening...
...name of streamlining information delivery, spokespeople have taken control of all media requests, only to repeatedly thwart our ability to gain the information we needed in a timely fashion. Coming from press officers, the information provided was by definition second-hand and often incomplete. More alarmingly, a number of attempts to block our reporters’ access to key administrators and to discourage professors from speaking to student journalists prevented us from accurately and thoroughly reporting on such important matters as tenure appointments, Allston planning and the financial health...