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Fourteen years of higher education and a handful of Ivy League degrees, and there I was, stiff and stupid, struck dumb by my own dumbness.

I hate measuring, and I say things like: a pinch of salt, a handful of flour, some of this and a splosh of that.

He took out a handful of nuts from his pocket, gnawed at them and began to eat.

For about a year an average of a dozen people met each Tuesday morning, and Rose came just a handful of times.

If you read just a handful of these reactions, you will see that the contributors are not ensconced in any echo chamber.

It is one of a handful of firms that offer such insurance, a big selling point for banks trying to attract wealthy customers.

Mr Edelman survived, escaping with a handful of colleagues along tunnels barely two feet high, slimy water up to his lips, to safety.

dusk, he jumped over the wall, slipped into the witch's garden, fast to pull a handful of lettuce, has brought back his wife to eat her.

Mironov is one of just a handful of scientists around the world who are involved in bioengineering cultured meat.

Then the lights clicked off as the last box was loaded into the truck and I said a handful of warm goodbyes to people I'd never met before.

Tang, with just a handful of films to her credit so far, is one of Asia's leading young actresses.

And even then, only a handful of people would be willing to fork out for styling that lasts only a few days.

Even in Britain, where there are just a handful of stand-alone Burberry shops, the company's best customers are foreign tourists.

The company has just a handful of flagship stores and authorised resellers in the country's largest cities.

But in 2008, an analysis of a handful of lunar volcanic glass beads suggested they might have formed in a watery environment.

There are only a handful of modern buildings which sometimes look remarkably out of place in this quiet capital.

The bank says the probe involves only a handful of cases and no data breaches involved customer information.

It used to be that a man could buy a handful of dark suits and ties and always look well turned-out for the office.

Hoff knelt down and poured a handful of dust into his hand. "It's like the moon, " he said.

you may not realize it , a handful of mixed nuts or crisps with your cocktail could actually have as many calories as a regular meal.

He said the volumes had been concentrated in a handful of stocks reflecting what he termed a "traders' market" .

To that, the boss shows him a handful of red soil and reminds him that the soil represents his own identity as a son of Africa.

The boardwalk is one of just a handful of similar ancient structures that exist in the U. K.

Our situation is nearly hopeless. We were ordered to take the Wailing Ziggurat with a handful of men.

"A handful of US finance companies cannot be allowed to decide how the whole world votes with its pocket, " he added.

To determine if your soil is sandy or not, take a handful of moistened soil and roll it into a ball.

But there was no sense in a handful of countries imposing such a tax; financial activities would simply push off elsewhere.

Until recently, Florida was one of a handful of states that expressly prohibited adoption by gay couples.

He has but a handful of men with him, and armies will be despatched against him.

Howqua's father was one of a handful of Chinese merchants permitted to trade silk and porcelain with foreigners.

It has no significant Muslim population (just a handful of Tatars, and some Soviet-era Iraqis, both highly integrated).

But now international interest in London property is no longer the preserve of a handful of peripatetic tycoons.

She put a handful of pins into the shoulders and sides of my gown and told me to pick it up in two days.

A handful of researchers, however, think science will ultimately delay aging at least long enough to double life spans.

The front line moved constantly, placed not in strategic locations but wherever a handful of rebels decided to gather and fight.

And none of them seem to have pleased anyone except a handful of financiers.

Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer.

She had been busily untying the knots in a handkerchief and now she poured out a handful of pennies on the counter.

A year later, he was dead, he was looking at the small daughter-in-law door closed her eyes. A handful of loess, conceal a romantic story.

An animated short from College Humor, "Dinosaur Office, " was one of a handful of 3-D videos that have been released for the device.

A handful of city folks will turn an empty lot into a playground for the children of their neighborhood.

At least 60% of these deaths could have been prevented by just a handful of inexpensive measures.

The service usually costs less than $15 per hectare for a handful of readings a year, and can increase yields by as much as 10%.

I had not told ITN in case the story fell flat, and I made sure only a handful of trusted South Africans knew the plan.

Messenger has already been able to return a partial map of the planet's crater-filled surface after just a handful of flybys.

All that being said, outside of a handful of scenarios, there is still plenty of room for growth when it comes to social media.

David co-wrote two songs for his 2008 debut album (A Little Too Not Over You and Don't Let Go), as well as a handful of the bonus tracks.

Her head almost disappeared inside as she rummaged around, pulling out a handful of napkins.

BIOS is one of just a handful of institutes worldwide that regularly monitor the ocean for physical and chemical changes.

Dogar and a handful of colleagues have been brought out of retirement to help reclaim hundreds of kilometers of track from the jungle.

Dalglish already has a handful of centre-halves in his squad, but is always on the look-out for improvement.

A few years ago, just a handful of small businesses used business coaching as a means to augment their business.

APL is one of only a handful of carriers currently cold-ironing in California, and the only one in Oakland.

Only a handful of its sabotage teams were able to penetrate American lines, and none of them managed to seize the vital Meuse bridges.

Only a handful of his 150m compatriots, aside from his family and a few religious leaders, ever saw him again.

The president-elect will be one of only a handful of presidents to have moved directly from Capitol Hill to the White House.

A decade or two ago Damascus offered just a handful of restaurants serving typical Syrian cuisine.

Some neighbouring countries were not able to monitor the manoeuvres (Lithuania, with a handful of observers in Belarus, was an exception).

We've been on the mark on an awful lot of our assessments, but there have been a handful of things we've underestimated.

So he had a handful of shrimp, maybe seven or eight shrimp, and all those other animals on the deck of the boat are bycatch.

Over time, you learn that a particular site tends to fail due to one of a handful of usual suspects.

So she made a fire on her hearth, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw.

America, along with Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan, is one of just a handful of democracies that retain capital punishment.

He took a handful of coins from his pocket.

So far, only a handful of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, have had their pictures taken directly.

Only a handful of countries have ever accomplished such a fiscal feat, and it has never been tried by so many countries at once.

But for a handful of foreigners, they seem to turn a blind eye to the picture. They see only the trees, not the woods.

The Cleveland Clinic has begun to offer management expertise, for a fee, to a handful of hospitals around the country.

I only bought him a cup of coffee and passed on a handful of names and numbers when he approached me about this project some five years ago.

For a team as good as the Spurs there's only a handful of meaningful games during the regular season. This was one of them.

At the start of your trip, pick up a handful of postcards and stamps and keep one or two with you at all times.

At the moment, only a handful of factories around the world produce biofuel from cellulose. And that fuel is still ethanol.

i ' m glad you asked . i could go on all day about our little community . we are but a handful of khajiit , as you can see.

"Glory to Hemingway, " she said in a simple ceremony watched by a handful of tourists and a dozen Cuban soldiers.

But Mr Jobs was one of a handful of pioneers who saw what was coming.

If I were to scoop up a handful of dirt and blow into it, all I would get is a dirty face.

Only a handful of his many compositions was allowed to be published during his lifetime.

Song is suffering from a knee injury and was one of a handful of big names who sat out Saturday's 2-0 defeat against Manchester United.

Ultimately the industry is likely to be dominated by a handful of producers of more than 100m tonnes a year.

Only a handful of protesters might be allowed to travel to Bangkok's remand prison where their colleagues are being held.

Mr Hung is one of a handful of Vietnamese aficionados trying to revive tastes for this epicurean and elusive beverage.

Whereas a handful of Western countries were once at it, a whole planet has started to join in.

so that after my Enclosure was finished, and I let them loose, they would follow me up and down, bleating after me for a handful of Corn.

To understand how the transition might have occurred, a handful of scientists are striving to re-enact it in the lab.

Betty fumbled again in her purse, this time pulling out a handful of old wrinkled pictures along with a tin of chocolate chip cookies.

This holiday, do not enrich my life, and his family did not travel, and students with a handful of times, have always felt very bored.

He persuaded advisers early on to let him keep his beloved BlackBerry to stay in touch with a handful of friends outside the White House.

If you throw a handful of straw into a river, some of it stays afloat even in a rapids.

Across the yard, C-Note walks up to Michael and sprinkles a handful of broken concrete the table in front of him.

Menopause, then, poses a bit of a riddle: in a handful of species, including humans, females cease breeding decades before they die.

So, with a handful of exceptions, the countries on today's map are likely to remain constant, at least for the foreseeable future.

Scientists have discovered that it is possible to manipulate complex visual images on a computer screen using only a handful of brain cells.

A handful of scraping knife in the lifetime of even grinding to a few millimetres in width, has been able to continue to work.

China's National People's Congress is usually a platform for the leadership to drive home a handful of key economic messages for the year.

Moreover this cultural loss might be a matter of concern for a handful of socialites and five-star hotels but not for the common man.

The kingdom had shrunk, it had been reduced to a handful of villages.

Legard walks over to one bed and pulls out a handful of coconut coir. It's black and sponge-like, a little bit like peat.

But that's not stopped a handful of companies from trying to one-up Google by inserting a human element into search.

It was all carefully monitored through a system of secret codes known only to a handful of Wal-Mart de Mexico executives.

Pop a handful of nuts in your food processor and whizz until it forms a nut butter, adding a little oil to help if it looks too dry.

Miss Middleton secretly celebrated her final weeks as a single woman with a handful of her closest friends several days ago.

A dinner for two at any of a handful of high-end restaurants could be had on a recent Friday night without a reservation.

When he arrived, he had walked half a mile to a bus station by himself and had been greeted by a handful of relatives.

Demand for pallets, and therefore pallet cants and cut-stock, remains slow in all but a few niche markets and a handful of areas.

At the beginning of the 18th century, Manchester was a pretty market town, its population living in a handful of streets.

He also reported closing out his stake in several companies and introduced a handful of new companies from various market sectors.

Robert Parker is one of only a handful of foreigners to have received France's two highest Presidential honors.

For OLTP applications, there should be less sorting and temp space required and only a handful of concurrent cursors opened at a time.

Stick with only the things you really need. A handful of messages is all you'll ever get through.

Actually, Penny, he's Robin Hood. -I'm Peter Pan. And I got a handful of pixie dust with your name on it.

Elsewhere, though, only a few towns and a handful of London boroughs have plumped for directly elected leaders.

the big winners in this new Gilded Age have been a handful of very wealthy people, not college graduates in general.

Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man.

Every Monday, Lefkofsky, Mason, and a handful of early employees would meet to talk about the Point's progress.

But if that was the case, then why, by its own estimate, did only a handful of app developers fall foul of its rules?

Only a handful of people have been convicted in the violence, and the three Christians are the only ones to be sentenced to death.

With only a handful of exceptions, he chooses to lead by being positive, rather than holding poor passages up to ridicule.

The largest have come from a group called Energy Citizens, which has sponsored rallies in a handful of cities around the country.

Only a handful of transit authorities now provide real-time bus location to the public; Seattle's King County Metro is one of them.

In Brezhnev's time there was no formal opposition to Soviet power - merely a handful of dissidents and intellectuals.

We might as well learn to use both hands of the feelings of a handful of sand to treat love and treasure them, good grip both hands.

A handful of Japanese militarists should be held responsible for the war and the Japanese people were victims as well.

These trees are just a handful of the many historic trees around the world.

Investors, however, are confusing an opening in the dark with a handful of glow worms.

When completed, the microscope will be one of just a handful of its kind in the world.

A fourth of them will be in just a handful of the biggest cities, including Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.

Christian man of means could enroll at one of a handful of universities, two of which were in England.

With the exception of a handful of mpg-oriented Pontiacs, neither brand offered much to help GM's CAFE standards.

The companies in question represent just a handful of the hundreds of Chinese companies listed on U. S. exchanges.

But the Golf is one of a handful of compact cars I would be happy to drive regularly on road trips.

There is a neuropathy, I do not know where to get a handful of pistols, he is gone in a small dark alley.

Mr Svezia says that with just a handful of franchised stores open, it is still too early to assess their likely impact on Collective.

As it turns out, a handful of scientific studies show that chicken soup really could have medicinal value.

Every 10 years or so, it seems, a handful of new looks endure long enough to become accepted as the uniform of a generation.

At the beginning of each day identify a handful of things that you want to accomplish.

In the course of our history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now.

I also didn't believe that the meeting ought to be with kind of a handful of countries.

A handful of us will pop out for tea at a place around the corner.

While septuplets have been delivered a handful of times, in no case have they all lived more than a few days or weeks.

James' brother George and a handful of other teenagers were the company's messengers.

Its leaders frequently squabble among themselves, and the indigenous Pachakutik party holds just a handful of seats in Congress.

A handful of Tibetans whose wild eyes and often dirt-blackened faces spoke for life at the farthest edges of human experience.

But the potential reward is substantial: annual royalty payments from a handful of courses would be enough to fund one's retirement.

A handful of youngsters jumped into the fountain on Sergels Square in Stockholm, yet there was no wild partying or dancing in the streets.

Several oil facilities have been damaged and only a handful of fully laden tankers have sailed since the fighting began.

The administration, led by one of a handful of Mandarin-speaking premiers outside Beijing, is instinctively pro-China.

Talent cannot be taught. It is it a rare thing possessed by a handful of gifted individuals.

Simultaneous data from the Bank of England yesterday highlighted the increasing concentration of FX among a handful of banks.

A few minutes later she was back with a handful of warm, fresh figs which she gave us for the journey ahead.

I even snuck in my own voice a handful of times, though I'm not sure you want to be in a situation where you hear it.

The restraint of Saudi Arabia, and of a handful of other countries of the Arabian Gulf, has propped up oil prices.

In other words, we really are just a handful of acquaintances away from the likes of Madonna, the Dalai Lama and the Queen.

When I was in college, concerned only with a handful of classes and almost nothing else, managing a dozen accounts was no big deal.

Knowing that only a handful of us would show up, he added, "those who attend will get the answer to one of the questions. "

Just a handful of European makers such as BMW with a chance at wooing rich Japanese buyers had full-scale booths.

Mulitalo, 32, was one of a handful of players remaining from the Ravens'Super Bowl championship squad of 2000.

A handful of dust could hide your signal when I did not know its meaning.

The association is based on just a handful of brain cancer cases, however-too few to be statistically significant.

Yet they are concentrated in just a handful of places worldwide to take advantage of specific local conditions.

In a world where owning even a handful of bombs would confer huge advantage, verification will have to be completely reliable.

But in December 2009 an air strike was blamed for killing more than 40 civilians as well as a handful of intended targets.

But rather than just slice budgets across the board, many companies are switching to a handful of new technologies that save them money.

Go outside and observe a bird in a tree, or pick up a handful of grass and spend a few moments looking at the earth in your hands.

So far, she says a handful of people have been granted visas, but none of the UNICEF experts are among them.

The State Department says so far the process is going well, despite a handful of security incidents that affected three voting centers.

To begin with, you must be able to support a handful of services.

And anarchic games of folk football are still played in a handful of British towns once a year.

Leaving the hotel in search of somewhere else to eat, we stared at a handful of parked taxis.

A handful of tourists were caught up in the violence as Blue Bird-owned taxis were attacked by men wielding clubs and stones.

Only in a handful of places do Easter celebrants alter their own arrangements to take account of their neighbours.

i cannot wait to get rid of all the twerps and enemies until the last day . i ' ll eliminate a handful of them on the way.

The underlying cause is believed by all but a handful of climatologists to be global warming brought about by greenhouse-gas emissions.

He is one of a handful of bloggers who are actually brave enough to put not only their name but also their face and weight in a blog.

It has 14 private universities, one shared library and a handful of fast-food restaurants to feed tens of thousands of students.

Struck by the urgency in his voice, I grabbed a handful of change and dashed out the door.

These factors create a stressful environment from which, for a handful of workers, suicide seems the only escape.

Mila: "It's the name of a gorgeous young star, Mila Kunis, PLUS it resembles a handful of trendy names -- Mia, Maya, Lila"

TPG is one of a handful of firms to announce a yuan-denominated fund, which will raise funds from local investors.

He is one of only a handful of drivers who tackled Rally Argentina last season when it ran outside of the WRC schedule.

The Namib is one of a handful of deserts that stretch adjacent to a cold sea .

In an industry dominated by a handful of global giants, each producing 3m-6m cars a year, Proton remains a minnow.

The bailout might have a limited impact precisely because large amounts of bad assets are concentrated in a handful of large banks.

He took up a handful of spongy soil and smelled it.

Only a handful of these ships were deployed as part of Onyx Squadron during the Battle of Endor.

He used examples of the illegal recount of 23 constituencies where a handful of votes changed, but did not alter the final result.

A year ago, only a handful of rich countries had factory-gate inflation of more than 4%.

Some are awarded to very distinct groups, meaning you may be one of a handful of candidates who qualify.

Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming is one of a handful of Republicans who has been discussing a bipartisan approach on health care.

It used to be that System D was small -- a handful of market women selling a handful of shriveled carrots to earn a handful of pennies.

Only a handful of Conservative MPs voted for him as speaker: one constituent says he was chosen by Labour as a "practical joke" .

Each participant listened to and was asked to repeat a handful of stories, and then to remember them after getting out of the car.

The duo worked together on a handful of pet projects, before eventually linking up to launch a new computer company, Apple.

In the late 1990s it was partially restored, but the Jewish community was allowed to use it on only a handful of holidays each year.

You're going to create a handful of functions in this file that allow actions within the context of your microblogging application.

If you look hard enough, you'll find at least a handful of sugar-free or low-sugar cereals like oatmeal, bran flakes and shredded wheat .

There will also be a handful of "world" encounters that will require the server to band together and overcome a great foe.

That's when astronomers turned up a handful of large trans-Neptunian objects that led to the creation of the "dwarf planet" category.

Same-sex behaviour is not necessarily synonymous with same-sex preferences, which have been observed in only a handful of animals.

North Korea is one of the world's most closed societies, with only a handful of locations open to foreign visitors.

There have also been a handful of military drills involving both Japan and the Philippines in recent years.

The naughty boy gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them in the lake.

When a request first reaches the UPS site, it is handled off to one of a handful of Web servers.

All but a handful of papers offer their content free online, so they immediately surrender the cover price of a print copy.

Tidal-power technology is in its infancy, but a handful of speculative ventures are under way in Eastport.

Essential for fertiliser, phosphate rock is only found in a handful of countries, including the US, China and Morocco.

As surely as the Lord your God lives, ' she replied, 'I don't have any bread-only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug.

A handful of men would to coating allergy, produce the contact change should sex skin disease , or the whole body changes versa.

They've had at least a handful of serious inquiries - one from as far away as London - and expect more to pour in as word gets out.

You just cannot rifle through a dead dwarves pockets with a handful of Two Handed Mace.

If you simply want recommendations related to a handful of queries, then the impact will be less than for a larger workload.

Sometimes, a handful of bidders seem to take turns to win contracts. Then there are "rival" bids with identical spelling errors.

A handful of applications on Apple Inc. 's iTunes store will let you do this, as long as you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot.

Currently Beijing, a city of 17 million, has just a handful of small, mostly poorly stocked foreign-language bookstores.

Provide three strengths, with examples. You will get much further with a handful of real strengths than with an unconvincing list of traits.

A handful of Vietnamese officers are receiving training in the United States: so much for domino theories.

By the end of 2009, the bank had teams in 141 countries, including all but a handful of Africa's 50-plus nation states.

Only a few years ago the railway-locomotive industry in Europe was spread among a handful of regional companies.

She imagined him there, sleepwalking under the grass in the courtyard beside the orange tree, a handful of wet earth in his mouth.

Nu Wa took up a hanDful of earth, mixed it with water and molded a figure in her likeness.

In almost every residential community, there was a handful of houses where all the kids hung out after school, in the evening, on weekends.

Supply has also been gutsy: a handful of shipbuilders are all seeking to tap the markets within a few months of each other.

The report also demonstrated that there are a handful of occupations, out of hundreds, where women actually made more than men.

Reflexively, some software intended for large networks can be applied to a handful of machines, too.

The protesters dispersed peacefully after throwing a handful of eggs and a couple of bottles of plastic water bottles at the Dutch embassy.

In the aftermath of the quake, a handful of bricklayers and builders have visited Xinjian Primary School out of professional curiosity.

A handful of decorated shell cases, finely engraved with dragons, flowers and inscriptions, are almost the only artefacts they left behind.

A handful of big companies may be able to use political clout to grab the benefits of spending for themselves.

Britain's Treasury, assisted by Credit Suisse and a handful of other experts, is sifting through the assets and pricing the risk of loss.

A. With a handful of exceptions, college presidents today are recruited to be stewards, not leaders.

To take a handful of examples: Winston Churchill, one of the 20th century's greatest orators, practiced his speeches compulsively.

Mr. Tada emerged into a crowd of several hundred other workers, all heading toward a handful of exits from the reactor building.

Kansai International Airport is an early exemplar of what is now a handful of East Asian airports built on artificial islands.

Over the following decades America, Spain and a handful of other countries built solar-thermal pilot plants for research purposes.

Jane Wangui owns a hair salon in downtown Nairobi, one of a handful of shops in the area open for business on Friday.

Why she's a spicy dish: Sonam is well educated, one of a handful of Indian actresses who attended university.

The factory offered to pay compensation to a handful of families whose plots abutted the factory gates. But it continued full operations.

There are only a handful of institutions nationwide that focus on the science of food packaging and Clemson University is one of them.

This code is not what I first attempted; this final version, nicely fixed up so that it works, reflects a handful of interesting quirks.

Only a handful of centers in the United States routinely employ the skinny scope as part of clinical practice.

Over time, the market has mushroomed to include futures, options and swaps contracts traded on a handful of exchanges round the world.

So far, only a handful of commonly used herbs from the World Pharmacopoeia are included here, with more to come.

Two years ago, only a handful of countries were affected by financial problems; but they have now spread throughout the globe.

He started in only a handful of games during his rookie season, coming off the bench in support of Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones.

Even the most optimistic analysts expect at most only a handful of these companies to survive.

The idea should be to help nurture "a handful of African 'tiger economies', similar to what happened in Asia 20 years ago" .

Only a handful of these lost jobs have come back, so far.

The system should begin with a handful of selected institutional investors and brokers.

Argentina is one of only a handful of countries that refuse all dealings with the IMF.

The images reveal blurry dots, "just a handful of pixels, " says Garth Illingworth, a University of California, Santa Cruz, astrophysicist.

Early reductions in state funds signaled that reform was genuine, and a handful of early, visible bankruptcies underscored this message.