Word: spirit
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...from affiliation. Each House would be home to many more cultural, musical, political and community-service groups which would add character to the House of their affiliation. Social life would return to the Houses as student groups held larger, campus-wide events in conjunction with the House community. House spirit would improve as each student group contributed to the sense of community and House personality by providing events and services that were non-alcoholic, non-exclusive and non-discriminatory in nature. Furthermore, the College could oversee this through a pre-existing organizational structure that allows for the different preferences...
...this spirit, the paper's editors and writers have been entertaining suggestions from its readers, as well as canvassing smalltown Americans. (The final decision has yet to be made and the capsule won't be sealed until next spring). But even a "snapshot" of life, applied to the whole of human civilization, is pretty ambitious...
That team spirit is a big draw at CCTV...
Both the festivity and the pervading spirit of optimism could be traced to an declaration last Wednesday that researchers working on the Human Genome Project had successfully decoded an entire human chromosome--an incredible milestone for the field of genetics and for science in general. For those unfamiliar with the history behind the announcement, the Human Genome Project is a public initiative that was started in 1990 and that involves a consortium of universities from around the world (it is financed in the United States by the National Institutes of Health). The ultimate goal is to map each and every...
...effort that truly embodies the spirit of global cooperation. The principal research is conducted at two large-scale industrial laboratories: the Sanger Centre in England and Washington University in St. Louis. The team decoding this particular chromosome (Chromosome 22--chosen because it is the shortest) also included scientists at Keio University in Japan and at the University of Oklahoma. Together, they produced a novel-length string of letters that identify the thousand or so genes at all points along the chromosome...