Word: tensed
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Although Jennings' life story has been likened to that of Hiawatha and Homer, Sandy Seddacca, dean of external relations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, introduced him as one survivor among tens of thousands of inner city kids.
The Catholic Church may gently pooh-pooh her claims, but that hasn't stopped tens of thousands of pilgrims from flocking to the Georgia farm of Nancy Fowler -- after all, if the clergy are wrong, then staying away would mean missing a rare public message from the Virgin Mary. More...
In manufacturing, the effects of computerization are easy to quantify. Take the computerized quality-control systems that the Measurex division of Honeywell Inc. sells to papermakers. The systems continuously measure such factors as the thickness of paper speeding through machines at up to 60 m.p.h. That enables operators to make...
A magnetar is a star that has run out of fuel and collapsed to form a neutron star--a ball of matter just a dozen miles across, so dense that a teaspoonful weighs tens of millions of tons. In rare instances, a neutron star can generate a magnetic field strong...
Sue Strauss has seen much worse than this. All the same, it's a needle again, another IV, so she braces herself a little. The attending nurse inserts it into her arm, and tens of millions of specially designed cells begin finding their way, she hopes, to the very core...