Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents of non-Catholic students, who account for about 12% of enrollment, seem less worried about the religious instruction their children may absorb than about the absence of values in the public system. This parental acceptance is largely the result of the self-selecting nature of parochial schools. Catholic administrators make it clear in advance that their institutions teach the tenets of the church. Parents comfortable with that arrangement are free to apply. "I'm not Catholic, but we're all serving the same God," says Betty Pitts, a black parent of two children in Our Lady of Lourdes elementary...
...this year's last day of April for Bangladesh. Twenty- foot walls of water. Demonic winds of crushing force. The horror left behind: 125,000 lives lost, and still counting. A world used to human-scale catastrophes -- plane crashes, say, that kill a few hundred at most -- cannot absorb the biblical dooms that visit Bangladesh. Straddling the conjoined mouths of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers, the country is regularly drowned by flood crests surging downstream or scourged by whirlwinds from the sea. Of the 20th century's 10 deadliest storms, seven have devoured...
...talking exactly about reading to escape. Nor about reading to edify and impress oneself. Paradise Lost is not much help at 3 in the morning, except of course as a heavy sleeping potion. I mean the kind of reading one does to keep sane, to touch other intelligences, to absorb a little grace. In Vietnam the soldiers said, "He is a man you can walk down the road with." They meant, a man you can trust when the road is very / dangerous. Every reader knows there are certain books you can go down the road with...
Organizers say they will also emphasize the inability of the state's higher education system to absorb any more reductions...
...tropical forests have been burned, cut or flooded in the five years since T.F.A.P. was conceived. It is not too late for the world to act to save these intricate green engines of life, but efforts to help will come to naught if the rich nations do not first absorb the failings of the world's most ambitious environmental program to date...