Word: uselessness
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...couldn't go anywhere on campus without being recognized by someone I didn't know. And even though "Idiot Savants" was canceled in the spring of 1997, I still owe the folks at MTV a debt of thanks for finally giving me the chance to make useful the useless things I knew. On the air, there were no mysteries, no shades of gray. Every question had an answer, every answer had a point value and at the end of the game, I knew just how much everything I knew was worth: a TV, a surround-sound stereo system, a free...
...Level Course. You see, in graduate school, they no longer have exams and papers scattered throughout the course to make sure that you are on top of the immense reading list. The undergraduate mentality of waiting until the first "assignment" is due before doing any work, therefore, becomes completely useless. And you cannot fake it, because they will know. In a graduate-course discussion on Shakespeare's King Lear, for example, neither the other students not the professor will be wowed by your fine-tuned commentary which you duly gleaned from your Core class last year. Instead, the grads will...
...Navy's EA-6B Prowlers, which will fly in behind the F-117s. Their jammers blank out ground-based radar and computer screens, and some of them let fly with HARM missiles, which home in on and destroy radar installations, leaving antiaircraft missiles at the site blind and useless...
...give a source. TIME has confirmed with its own FBI sources that no semen stains or DNA evidence was found on any of the clothing seized from Lewinsky. The next day New York Newsday ran a story quoting forensic scientists saying tests for seminal stains can be rendered useless if clothing is laundered or dry-cleaned...
...takes a strange love of useless knowledge [to compete in quiz shows], but in the process of preparing~ for competitions, I've learned a whole lot of material in subjects that I would have passed by in college," Ulm said...