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...rest of the population begins to stir. The students come from every direction, by bus, on foot, in every size and shape of car. Some slouch through the doors, some bounce, some seem so fully grown, others are toddlers; they wear shorts and parkas and black trench coats; they are dyed and pierced and bespectacled and mascaraed and pumped up and wasted away; and none of them are typical--there is no such thing as average...
...stir-fried vegetables have any egg or dairy products...
...most respects the asteroid that's causing the celestial stir is nothing remarkable. Known to astronomers as Eugenia, it measures about 133 miles across and is one of thousands of bits of cosmic flotsam in the great rubble stream between Mars and Jupiter. When an international team of astronomers working at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii turned their attention toward Eugenia one evening last fall, however, they spotted something curious. Off on the upper-left corner of the fuzzy-looking image was another smear of light they couldn't identify. "These blobs are often...
...transplant, the chances of getting a new organ and the percentage of successful procedures associated with heart and liver transplants in 100 medical centers across the country. The numbers, picked up ahead of time by the Associated Press, are being released Thursday but are causing an early stir in the medical establishment. According to the report, there are some hospitals ? such as the one at the University of Maryland ? where, in the mid-1990s, only around 20 percent of patients waiting for liver transplants received new organs, while at others the transplantation rate was closer to 90 percent (the University...
...these, of course, are examples of what Joseph Schumpeter, one of the giants of economics, called "creative destruction"--the replacement of old ways of doing business by better ones. Still, these changes will wipe out some jobs and, Munroe fears, stir resistance to the Internet among many people who feel economically threatened...