Word: whiz
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...highlighting, or the “notes” and “ideas” that they have been preparing—after all, you did your fair share of underlining with your old pal No. 2, but more importantly, you’re a problem set whiz...
...only 20 minutes, but flights tend to come only once a week. When they do, it feels like Christmas - mail from home is the only thing that keeps the soldiers at Maizan going. Today's haul saw troops whooping over new Sony Playstations, games, Oreos, cigarettes, Cheese Whiz and even a flea collar for Beebe, the camp dog. Sergeant Florian Barrie, from Watertown, New York, walked off with three cases of Mountain Dew sent by his mom and a friend. Expensive? Yes, but it's these little things that make life bearable in Maizan...
Call themplaystations with ahigher purpose. Activist video games--which use whiz-bang formats to address real-world issues--are scoring high with both kids and teachers. Given the success of the U.N.'s aid-relief game Food Force (with more than 4 million downloads in 15 months) and the MTV-affiliated Darfur Is Dying (more than 800,000 players since April), techno do-gooders are proliferating, and gamers are saving the world...
...that must be addressed on the grassroots level.The social problems framed by the culture of commuting are deep, complex, and without apparent solution. However, these issues demand that we recognize their presence and meditate on their impacts, even if it’s only as the buildings and trees whiz past us, faster and faster, away from the city, closer to home.Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. She also spends her commuting hours resenting the need to dress professionally, especially when the alarm clock rings...
...first part of his film Mann dawdles them through a labyrinth that's not conventionally menacing. Foxx and Farrell don't have a lot to do in those passages, which permits us to spend plenty of time with Li, who plays the criminal gang's enigmatic financial whiz, and that time is scarcely wasted. Mann never explains why she has fallen into bad company instead of rising to the top on Wall Street, and that makes her more attractive to Farrell...