Word: unfamiliar
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...without service for over two hours. This was the worst outage to date for Gmail, which serves 113 million users worldwide, according to the Financial Times. Joshua A. Kroll ’09, former president of the Harvard Computer Society, said users should take care not to click on unfamiliar links. He also said that TinyURL.com includes a preview feature that can give Web surfers an indication of the link’s actual destination. —Staff Writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...liberal arts education is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to disorient young people and to help them find ways to reorient themselves.” In and outside of the classroom, Harvard students are encouraged to explore the unexplored, to excavate the unfamiliar, and to learn in our wanderings through terra incognita just how limitless our learning...
...after a loss to Dartmouth on Jan. 6, Harvard found itself in an unfamiliar position. With the end of the regular season just a few weeks away, the team sat under .500 and, for the first time in years, was left out of any conversation about the NCAA playoffs...
...alternate scenario is also possible: that upon exhausting the natural world, science has the ability to someday reveal hitherto unfamiliar regions of metaphysics. Consider, for example, the explosion in understanding of the cell, the fundamental unit of life. The expanding field of systems biology elucidates breathtaking networks of interactions, as thousands upon thousands of molecules are precisely regulated to perform the simplest of functions. Metaphysically, many explanations could exist for the arguably beautiful nature of these networks...
...Women unfamiliar with rugby culture needn't worry. A Girl's Guide to Rugby accompanies each book; it doesn't just explain the meaning of offside and line-outs but also provides information about where to view matches - they can jet off to Dubai for the International Rugby Sevens or catch the Tri Nations tournament in Australia, New Zealand or South Africa. Readers will find out about rugby's various positions through the stories too. In The Prince's Waitress Wife, Holly encounters the word hooker and exclaims to the prince, "I can't believe they named a rugby position...