Word: upon
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...craziness of rooming is upon us. Perhaps the biggest question is whether or not you'll snag that window seat or River view; maybe you're just so extraordinarily excited to have a single that you can't think of anything else. I hear you on that one. It's quite possible you still love your roommates. Maybe you've never walked up to your door mumbling under your breath how much you hope no one's home...
...that summer, Letteri accompanied a friend down to the neighborhood athletic center, intent upon learning the ins and outs of racquetball. When he arrived at the courts, though, he was surprised by what...
...fellow Asian American individual. As a member of the Asian American Brotherhood, I have deep concerns about the perpetuation of negative Asian American stereotypes in the media. As an individual with a conscience, I cannot believe that any self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to print a strip based upon stereotypes, artistically unoriginal and certainly socially unacceptable...
...apparently arbitrary aspects of the standard model. But there are explanations and explanations. We would not be satisfied with a theory that explains the standard model in terms of something complicated and arbitrary, in the way astronomers before Copernicus explained the motions of planets by piling epicycles upon epicycles...
...experiments--artificially simplified situations manipulated by human observers to guarantee (within the best of our ability) an exact repetition of all timings, forces and substances. If we achieve the same result in each of several replications, we then gain confidence that we may be witnessing a predictable generality based upon a law of nature. This search for replicates underlies the efforts--and partial successes--of scientists to synthesize living matter from the presumed chemical constituents in the "primordial soup" of the earth's original oceans. Can we create some rudimentary forms of life by exposing these constituents to known sources...