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...application had little benefit for students or professors. Many students I spoke with felt that that application had no bearing on the process and simply allowed the FDO to register them for interviews. But since the mere submission of an application guarantees an interview, the FDO ought to rework and expand the application in-order to encourage professors to use it more creatively...
Regardless, the first big challenge for Chen and the rest of the Crimson squad will come in a mere week and half against Eastern foe, Queens. Although the matchup comes early on in the season, a victory against the New York squad could spell serious dividends come seeding time for the Eastern Qualifying Championships in October...
...past four decades, a mere handful of news moments have seemed momentous enough to leave a permanent imprint on the public consciousness. President Kennedy's assassination, the moon landing and the night war broke out in the Gulf were so widely and instantly disseminated that nearly all who witnessed them can tell you where they were and what they were doing at the time. Now, it seems the death of Princess Diana has been somberly added to this sublime list of events...
...already used to enhance performances, smoothing out crow's-feet here, filling in a depleted hairline there, even, as one London-based f/x man described it to the Guardian, removing "a dribble of spit" from Tom Cruise's chin for a scene in Mission: Impossible. But this is mere tweakery. A Japanese company has created a digital teen idol, Kyoko Date, who performs in music videos. "She," however, is based on the anatomical parts of various real girls. Dennis Muren, who has won eight Oscars as the senior visual-effects supervisor at George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, estimates that...
...overused comparison of the risks of driving a car to the chances of being attacked by a shark is "de-bait-able." It does not comfort those of us who occasionally dip in the ocean to know that we may be one of a mere 10 or 15 people who are fatally wounded by a surprise shark attack each year. Driving has dangers that we can mitigate through a defensive approach. I'm not condoning the elimination of sharks, but I don't want one for my next water toy either. DON BRINTON Hanna, Alta...