Word: snickers
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...often, however, the play prioritizes the mundane over the insane. At times, the play is simply making the same cracks that we’ve all made to each other about dining hall food, messy roommates, and Yale. While the goal often seems to be the groan-snicker of recognition that comes with the umpteenth comment about these constants of life, even in song form the well-worn jokes have gotten somewhat dull from repetition. They often seem obligatory, as if authors Aliza H. Aufrichtig ’08 and Ximena S. Vengoechea ’08 felt duty-bound...
...feel comfortable and proud of who they are. Sometimes that simply means raising queer visibility; sometimes that means throwing a party; sometimes that means educating people about issues like campus policies; and sometimes that means talking about sexual practices or identities that are normally only mentioned with a snicker or a sneer...
...professor Stephen Mayo ran into resistance when they proposed a new approach to fighting disease. They argued that because protein shapes vary according to their functions, it should be possible to create new disease-fighting proteins by first imagining their shape. "You could hear the people at Caltech snicker," says Dahiyat...
...innovations are a testimony to the do-it-yourself spirit that fuels both technology and entrepreneurship. Indeed, many of this year's Pioneers had to leave comfortable corporate or academic jobs in order to solve problems that have confounded others for years. "You could hear the people at Caltech snicker,'' says Xencor co-founder Bassil Dahiyat, recalling his graduate days at California Institute of Technology when he proposed that since protein shapes vary according to their functions, one could create new disease-fighting proteins by first imagining their shape. Looks like he may be right - Dahiyat now says...
...Payne’s easy enthusiasm, his preaching of what he practices, is an oddity in a scene populated by dorky eccentrics who snicker at their own work even as they labor over it, Payne has at least one thing solidly in common with other indie auteurs: he loves...