Word: backpacker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like everyone else here, I left a substantial existence at home. I remember the familiarity with which I would walk across our high school parking lot after the final bell, shirt untucked and backpack carelessly flung on my shoulder. It was easy to be happy then, when I knew the ways of the old place and had adjusted accordingly. I could go through entire weeks without a serious worry, and that is pretty impressive, if you know how much I worry...
Four years ago I visited the U.S. for the first time. I arrived in New York alone, weighed down with a heavy backpack, with no idea where I was to stay. The prospect of a cheap, insalubrious downtown hostel enticed me, so I headed for Madison Square Garden. Spat out onto the street from the subway, I had no idea where to go; people rushed past and into me without interest; and, of course, I couldn't look at a map. Everyone told me that--never look at a map on the street. Nascent paranoia was restrained as I made...
...assailants then attacked the third victim, robbing him of his backpack and wallet, which contained credit cards and $70 cash. The third victim had witnessed the first robbery, according to Cambridge Police Department spokesperson Frank T. Pasquarello...
...armed with my backpack full of good intentions, I resolved to shop an Arabic class. Despite the fact that I was following the path mapped out by a star-studded panel of University luminaries, Harvard did its utmost to prevent me from carrying out my adventurous resolution...
...high marks for the concept. Strange written messages begin appearing on the computer screens and notebooks of a group of school friends. The messages emanate from an unseen supernatural being who communicates only in writing and helps the kids solve mysteries (in the first few episodes, a wave of backpack thefts by a cult of school-yard video-game enthusiasts). Forcing the junior detectives to read and write -- and perform other word tasks, like deciphering anagrams -- in order to solve mysteries is an ingenious way of getting young viewers to treat reading as something other than a chore...