Word: america
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...Crimson's continued strong play in the back was one of the highlights for the team. B.U. has averaged four goals a game this season and features a number of offensive threats, including four of the top six scorers in the America East. Of those four, only Mele got a point in Saturday's contest...
...America Onliners, rejoice! With last week's release of Version 5.0--the latest upgrade of AOL's popular operating software--you can do what everyone else on the Net has long been doing: automatically append a "signature file" to outgoing e-mail. Think of sig files as the bumper stickers of e-mail--your chance to personalize your messages. While mine has always been simply name, rank and fax number, the best sig quote I ever saw was the whimsical "I'd like to die in my sleep with a smile on my face like my granddad, rather than screaming...
Some people might point out that the ability to do signature files is but the smallest part of AOL's latest software upgrade, and I suppose they're right. But it is the little things--giving people what they want--that have made America Online the world's most popular Internet-service provider. The company launched 10 years ago last week; today AOL reaches 18 million households, making it more populated than the city of Shanghai. The company claims its users are its best test bed for new ideas--that's where many of the features in 5.0 originated...
Freberg was an enormously talented composer whose intricate rhymes and uncanny ear for song styles would have made him a Tin Pan Alley success even without the satire. On his great United States of America album, Freberg portrayed Ben Franklin as a prickly conservative who balked at signing Tom Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. The two founding fathers sing a number that includes this exchange...
...HOME BY 10 While a national debate rages over the effect of media depictions of violence on America's children, a new study in the journal Pediatrics finds that though TV has a negative influence, what more profoundly promotes violent behavior is being a victim of, or witness to, real violence at school, in the neighborhood or at home. Parents can help reduce youth violence by taking seriously their kids' complaints about persistent abuse from siblings or bullies, by knowing who their kids' friends are, and by insisting they be home on time...