Word: 12th
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...terror. She recoiled from her mother and father and even her own hair. During one lucid moment the little girl told her parents, "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be afraid of you, but I can't help it." On July 11, three days before her 12th birthday, she died with doctors still mystified...
...that is new in the great freights is rooted in what is old. The romance of railroading is intact. Richard Davidson, U.P.'s chairman, sits in his 12th- floor office above Omaha's Dodge Street, named for engineer Grenville Dodge, who drove the original line west. Davidson, once an 18-year-old brakeman on the Missouri Pacific, views the Missouri River bluffs where Abraham Lincoln stood and pointed to the spot where the Union Pacific would begin in 1862. Through Davidson's window come the faint calls of trains hustling along the valley. "I still get emotional when...
...Being selected as Wellesley's 12th president is a great honor," Walsh said in a statement released yesterday. "I approach this new challenge with excitement and humility, and in the sure knowledge that I will have much support from the thousands of extraordinary women and men who care deeply about the future of Wellesley and the future of the world...
...students carry a gun to school, according to the National Education Association. In a survey released last week, pollster Louis Harris found alarming evidence of a gun culture among the 2,508 students he polled in 96 schools across the U.S. Fifteen percent of students in the sixth through 12th grades said they have carried a handgun in the past 30 days, 11% said they have been shot at, and 59% said they know where to get a gun if they need...
Cambridge also ranked 32 out of 39 schools in Boston and the surrounding areas in the percentage of students performing at or above grade level on standardized achievement test in 12th grade math and eighth grade science...