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...concentration like that,” she says of folklore and mythology, “you get unusual people and they go off to do unusual things.”UNVEILING THE MYTHWeary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan explains the allure of uncommon studies through her own experiences as a teenager who was distracted by a German poem in the back of her textbook.“It becomes a sort of secret science,” Ryan says of less common fields of study, “some knowledge that you have access to that...
...overly generous financial compensation. “I’m not going to disclose how much it was, but the teams commented that the deal that I got was outstanding,” Dawson said. “I got a substantial signing bonus that’s uncommon for free agents.” But money was not the only deciding factor on Sunday night. The prospect of a real opportunity was also on the table. “What I enjoy about the Colts is that they expressed sincere interest in me,” Dawson said...
...17th century, that a black person was a slave. The second was the hostility toward manumission and freed blacks generally, leading to laws requiring freed persons to leave the colony. In all the other slave societies of the hemisphere, including those of the French and British, manumission was not uncommon and resulted in the growth of significant freed nonwhite populations, some of them quite prosperous. Why did Virginia move away from this pattern, especially after its early similarity to other emerging slave regimes...
...into a digital format, she would save highly classified documents onto a "thumb drive" and then take the material home to work on after hours, she has said. The practice of inserting thumb drives was specifically forbidden by then DOE secretary Bill Richardson in 1999, but was apparently not uncommon at Los Alamos. Using thumb drives, and at least one wireless (WIFI) device that was improperly in the secure area, it would have been possible to transfer secret material from classified computers to non-classifed computers, a process known as "migration." Since the discovery of Quintana's breach last fall...
...they arrive on campus must seem appealing. Yet I can’t imagine the administration really wants to impose this kind of frustration. Far from educating us naïve first-years on the perils of alcohol, it merely annoys the hell out of us. It was not uncommon for Alcohol Edu to time out several times in one section (approximately 15 minutes work), as happened to me on several occasions...