Word: smarts
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...example: almost every time Juno is on the street, a team of uniformed runners goes jogging silently past. They symbolize, I suppose, the fact that there are other people in the world, lost in their own preoccupations, benignly indifferent to the issues absorbing Juno, absorbing us. It is a smart reminder that the story any fiction relates is arbitrarily chosen and dependent for its effect on the ability of its tellers to enlist our interest - no special pleading, no emotional cheap shots permitted...
...enrichment change unless Iran chose to enrich its uranium covertly, slowing the process. A country with civilian nuclear plants could choose to reprocess spent atomic fuel into plutonium, which can also be used for bombmaking. That would require the construction of a separate reprocessing facility. You need to be smart enough to actually design a weapon, but as Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists points out, "If you can make fissile material, you can make a warhead...
...series’ recent history.WALT: But that doesn’t mean Beilein is a bad coach; rather, Michigan is a program in transition. The program has changed dramatically in one year.Amaker’s coaching philosophy is about one thing: defense, defense, and more defense. He wants smart players who can rebound, get up and down the court, and play all-around tough D.New Michigan coach John Beilein plays an altogether different style. Following the lead of Dave Chapelle’s Prince, he wants his players to “Shoot the J. Shoot...
Customer motivations vary as much as the bags themselves. "Some clients want to look like footballers' wives, but others are smart businesswomen who want to carry something special into the boardroom," says Jo Trafford, who founded the service with her policeman husband in July. Since then, Trafford has bought nearly $200,000 worth of bags, sourced directly from fashion capitals such as Paris, Milan and New York City. The ever-expanding collection reflects client requests and takes inspiration from Hollywood. Recent additions include the Gucci Indy, which Mischa Barton made last summer's It bag, and five Bow Bags...
Last week, Harvard announced the newest crop of seniors to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa...and the rest of the student body felt wildly inadequate. But, perhaps this painful reminder that as smart as we may be, there is always someone who is smarter should not be taken too seriously. How brainy could these kids really be? FM puts five representatives from the 48 inductees to the test: 1. What’s the capital of Suriname? Taylor M. Owings ’08: “I mean I can Google it, but I’m going...