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Sojourner next turned toward Barnacle Bill, a 10-in.-high rock lying within arm's length of the lander, and closed in to sniff out its mineral content. Displaying a picture of the rover at the rock, the ever buoyant project scientist Matthew Golombek joked, "Here we have proof that Sojourner sort of nestled up and kissed Barnacle Bill." The high-tech buss, profferred by the rover's X-ray spectrometer, produced an unexpected finding: the rock was apparently loaded with silicon or silicon dioxide, commonly known as quartz...
When is $300 billion not a lot of money? It would make every resident of Buffalo, N.Y., an instant millionaire. It equals 40 years of profit for Exxon. But if it comes from the tobacco industry, well, for a growing number of folks $300 billion is a sum to sniff at. This is the nightmare that proponents of a sweeping congressional tobacco settlement most feared: a greedfest from plaintiffs' lawyers and the public now that tobacco executives have come to the bargaining table. Consider the state of Missouri, which so far has steered clear of the tobacco suits. "I expect...
...they sniff, dream into the pictures their minds unearth, and write. A boy's hand is fixed to his forehead, covering one eye. A girl touches her lips with her pencil. They are all very still, separated from one another and from the classroom and the cold sun streaking...
...also straddle the dividing line between the two camps. However, they, too, seem to suffer the penalty for dividing their loyalties; their professors and classmates in the sciences often see them as mercenary sorts not committed to the subject matter, while more purely artistic or verbally-oriented types sometimes sniff that pre-meds have "sold their souls to organic chemistry," (this from stout-hearted Haley Steele '99, a VES major). These accusations are not totally warranted--all a pre-med is, after all, is just someone who wants to help others later in life. The fact that people often have...
...administration at other schools." Princeton denied that the program was an end run around the Overlap pact. A Dartmouth official called the denial an act of "sophistry." Yale's president, Benno Schmidt, wrote, "This looks like a blatant merit scholarship to me," prompting Princeton's president, William Bowen, to sniff during a deposition, "I would really not have thought a person as well trained in the law as Mr. Schmidt would make such a blatantly foolish assertion...