Word: afraid
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Yesterday's Financial Times headline said it all: "US students flunk test." Confirming what we already knew, but were afraid to admit, a recent international study of high school seniors found the math and science skills of the U.S. students to be among the worst of the nations participating in the survey. The Financial Times adds insult to injury, noting (in their U.S. edition only) that "the US only scored higher than three nations--Lithuania, Cyprus and South Africa." These results offer us another opportunity to take a more serious look at President Clinton's plan for national standards...
...latest on `Little House [on the Prairie]' except me. My vocabulary was behind everyone else's, and my teachers wondered if it was because I never watched TV. It made me feel weird; the last thing you want in first grade is to feel weird." An anonymous (afraid of being stigmatized?) Lowell House senior concurs. "When I was a little kid, [not watching television] was hard because that's the way to have some-thing in common with people," he says...
...inches of glass, so they could laugh their heads off - people would literally be crying from laughing so hard--but I had to restrain myself from laughing because it would pick up in the booth. One time I actually had to get down on the ground because I was afraid my chuckles would be picked up on the tape...
...Neill was the consummate deal maker, brokering compromises on tough issues within his own party. And O'Neill was not afraid to express his opinions, even when they split the district...
...compete in the Olympics, had been watching the Lillehammer Games on TV when she noticed that the women's luge champion was, like herself, not small. "You'd be perfect for it," said her cross-country coach, John Feig. "You're laid back, you love speed, you're not afraid, and you're kind of crazy." With the Venezuelan delegation (mostly her twin sister and her mother), she marched through the opening ceremonies in a startling poncho. Declaring, "This is what I was destined to do," she finished 28th in a field...