Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Emotional reactions to the current discussions between Harvard and Radcliffe range from ecstatic to fearful. But one thing's for sure--if Radcliffe were to tug on the purse strings of its alumnae post-merger, heartstrings in tune with Radcliffe "College" might snap...
...When he was about four], I noticed my son goto a Coke machine," he says. "He put his earagainst the box and he listened very intently, andthen he started to snap his fingers and bop hishead to the rhythm of the Coke...
...ready to make such a claim for digital cameras, which were introduced in 1995. But the technology of capturing pictures as computer data is racing ahead as consumers get comfortable with the technology. The latest "megapixel" models, which snap images composed of more than a million dots, or pixels, can produce pictures that rival film prints--provided you've got a computer, a good color printer, some glossy photo paper and the patience to put it all together. You may need a bigger wallet too: the best consumer models still cost...
Recently Weakland has taken time away from work: in 1996 the Juilliard piano graduate toiled on a doctoral dissertation on liturgical chant at Columbia University (leading Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, whose workfare program Weakland had faulted, to snap that the Archbishop should "read his Bible instead of playing piano in New York"). Last year Weakland underwent treatment for prostate cancer. But he is back in combative form, penning a preview of his ad limina thoughts for the Jesuit magazine America. He feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns...
...billion-apiece KH-12 satellites the Pentagon has in orbit are like Hubble space telescopes pointed back to earth. From 164 miles up, their optical sensors can snap clear photographs of objects no larger than a paperback novel on the ground. The two Lacrosse satellites, same price tag, with solar-power panels that stretch the length of half a football field, have radar-imaging cameras that can see through clouds and even the dust storms that swirl around India's Pokhran test site. In a crisis, at least one of the four birds can be positioned over a target...