According to the NIAAA, about 25 percent of college students report negative academic consequences of their drinking, including missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers and receiving lower grades overall.

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After a few weeks, I realized my class was missing some of them.

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You are right of course, but predictably missing from your list of middle-class tax beneficiaries are car drivers.

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Committee chair Tim Yeo MP said Britain risked missing out on creating a "world class industry" by failing to harness UK creativity and innovation in the development of CCS technologies.

BBC: Debate on carbon capture and storage

And on top of it was the more graspable everyday bewilderment of a sick child: the humiliation of being suddenly removed from class, the disappointment of missing a trip to the IMAX theater or to the rain-forest exhibit at Moody Gardens, the growing awareness of a defining and isolating vulnerability.

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" Steerage passengers who were missing were not listed, but among those lost from the first- or second-class cabins were five exiled nuns, whose misspelled names were given as "Barbara Hilkenschmidt, Henrico Tassbander, Lorbela Reenkober, Aurea Radjura, and Brigella Dambard.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Exiles'

Other variations: being one credit short of the number required to graduate, missing a critical court date or having to take an exam in a course for which they never went to class.

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