Word: wondrous
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...great by the variety of people that you can bump into on the bus, in a chic restaurant or in your lobby. The heart of New York does not change with the migration of yuppies to a new neighborhood or the destruction of a landmark. It exists in the wondrous possibility that your super is in the mafia, the cast of “Sex and the City” is shooting on your corner and the next guy you meet at a party is a world-class concert pianist...
After all, Carswell’s fear of “flunking out” of Harvard (or even of receiving poor grades) is hardly a concern for today’s undergraduate. Thanks to wondrous advances in the field of grade inflation, the “average” Harvard student will graduate with at least a 3.0 and, in many cases, will do so without straining any cerebral muscles in the process. The Gentleman’s C of yesteryear has become the Gentleperson’s A-/B+ of this generation. Sadly for academic purists and happily...
...help us understand the realities of our daily lives but also open up “an immense and unexpected field of action.” It was Fred Rogers’ genius to recognize that children have a real capacity to explore the mundane, discovering the strange and wondrous in the familiar...
...Under competitive pressure from nimble private scientists, the goal was achieved ahead of schedule and under budget. In June 2000, when Bill Clinton and Tony Blair announced that the first rough draft of the genome was complete, Clinton declared that "without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind." It was enough to fill 200 phone books at 1,000 pages each, or 75,490 pages of the New York Times. And it marked the turning point in the transformation of medicine from treating disease to preventing it altogether...
...pride in bringing fresh approaches to covering history. Years ago, introducing a series of books called TIME Capsules, Henry Luce summed up the spirit of the enterprise. "The point," he wrote, "is to take a ride in the TIME-machine and have fun." Fasten your seat belts for a wondrous trip...