Word: woke
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...thoroughly collegiate on March 1. I woke at the ripe hour of 10:30 a.m. and immediately went to check my e-mail. At home I was a fervent anti-technocrat, but I have had to adapt-here at college, checking your e-mail is more important than that first cup of coffee. After trekking to Rubin's Deli in Brookline for lunch with a friend, I returned to Harvardland to finish up my work before the much-anticipated Freshman Formal that night. I checked my mail in the monstrosity we call a Science Center, and then...
...Slowly, we woke up to this problem," says Betancourt. The NRC relaxed standards and granted license amendments that allowed plants to "rerack" their rods in ever more tightly packed pools. Sandwiched between the rods is a neutron-absorbing material called Boraflex that helps keep them from "going critical." After fuel pools across the country were filled in this way, the industry discovered that radiation causes Boraflex to shrink and crack. The NRC is studying the problem, but at times its officials haven't bothered to analyze a pool's cooling capacity before granting a reracking amendment. "It didn't receive...
...Alexander, as skilled and slick a pol as ever pretended not to be one, the week finally gave him his spotlight. He woke up Tuesday morning with all sorts of advantages: he was still an unknown, so his negative ratings were low in a field where everyone else's were rising. He was so cash strapped he could barely afford negative ads, which allowed him to take credit for not running any. The morning after Iowa he spent on a conference call with more than 200 rainmakers, winning their promise to raise at least $5,000 each by week...
...Fisherman's Wharf the locals can talk of nothing else. "For the first time, we woke up and found there were drug murders," says a businessman. "This kind of thing isn't supposed to happen on a little island like St. Kitts." No it isn't, not on St. Kitts or any of the other outcroppings of paradise that fleck the Caribbean. Yet the islands now play a major role in the international drug trade, with all its attendant corruption and violence...
...team woke up, and Harvard lost only three sets against Tulsa en route to its shutout victory. The Crimson also swept two unscored matches--one doubles and one singles...