Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Except, maybe, their vacation schedule. While many of us had papers, problem sets or at the very least reading due during the three days before Turkey Day, the Bulldogs had a full 10 days of free time. When Harvard students had to blearily travel back to Cambridge, Yalies, along with the students of many other colleges were traveling home and beating the Wednesday-before-Thanksgiving-rush. This injustice, on top of losing The Game, was too much...
...that any direct threat to health from genetically modified foods has been found, except by a lone British researcher who claimed--somewhat dubiously--that g.m. potatoes damaged his lab rats. On the contrary, as scientists told the FDA, genetically modified foods could carry clear health benefits, such as delivering more nutrients, reducing spoilage and curtailing chemical contamination. Besides, natural doesn't always mean good: cassava, for example, can be toxic if not properly prepared...
...Except for waking up to delicious leftovers, perhaps...
...platoon was about half white, another third Hispanic, and the rest black. All classes (except rich kids), all ages (17-28), all parts of the country, from the Bronx to North Dakota to Southern California. Some smart kids, most who didn't have "school" but wanted it, some who'd gone there and dropped out for all the usual follies...
...Tuesday, we took our PT test, to meet the minimum standards for boot camp (for men, 13 push-ups, 17 sit-ups and a one-mile run in under eight minutes). Everyone passed except the asthmatic (who gets to run again) and the guy with the heart condition (he's gone, after - he says - his heart almost exploded at one third of a mile). Yours truly came in with a surprising 6:20 (and this was a road race, no track...