Word: tracee
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...warping as it sponged up moisture from the air. Intrigued, he ran a simple experiment and discovered that the probe was a marvelously precise hygrometer. If it could measure moisture, he wondered, why not all sorts of other stuff? Thundat, 46, has since built tiny sensors to detect trace amounts of everything from explosives to cancer markers to chemical weapons, winning scads of awards and 17 patents for his inventiveness...
...bear. We, we, we…”—a seeming parody of simple rock lyrics that perfectly parallels the song’s and the band’s breakdown and critique of traditional rock forms. None of these songs had a trace of simple verse-chorus-verse structure; blips of musical phrasing come and go in irregular patterns, emphatically and perhaps even poignantly...
...rapist” are words that we often reserve for certain kinds of assault, like stranger rape, or rape involving screams and bruises. Yet perpetrators rarely have letters on their forehead, “R” for rapist, and date rape sometimes leaves little physical trace. The fact is, rape can be as simple as doing something that was never agreed upon. Frighteningly, this is part of the definition of sex for many Harvard students...
...Ever since her debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's fiction has sought to unweave the tangled web of family memory and to trace those threads that span continents?Asia and North America?and generations. Tan's stolid Chinese mothers are the repositories of those tightly bound reminiscences; to their conflicted daughters falls the duty of unraveling them. The Opposite of Fate is an attempt to pull at some of the loose ends, with added ruminations on the quirks of celebrity authorship, recollections of rocking-and-rolling with Stephen King and an inevitable (and forgettable) commencement address...
...almost never come before the Ad Board merely for getting drunk,” according to Assistant Dean of the Faculty David B. Fithian, who was secretary of the Ad Board for three years. First-years may get a warning from their freshman dean, but those warnings leave no trace on one’s transcript. They do follow first-years to the Houses, but senior tutors are not likely to dwell on them in cases that involve only underage drinking. “It doesn’t bias me in any way,” according to Adams...