Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lacey, Wash., she adds, "he was kind of like a shadow. He didn't make an impression." Still, by Merrill's account, Furrow was curious and bright enough to go on to community college after an aborted stint in the Army (he was honorably discharged because of a bad knee). He studied engineering and then landed a series of solid jobs, including a stint at a Northrop Grumman plant near Rosamond, Calif., 40 miles from Granada Hills, where the shooting was to take place...
...that quickly." Another flaw, she says, is inherent: A college can?t just be good ?- it has to be good for you. "There?s just no way to objectively rank a college. You have these 16- and 17-year-olds and their parents obsessing over these ratings, and making bad decisions based on a number." Tech-heavy schools like Cal-Tech moved up based on the job prospects and salaries of their graduates (think Silicon Valley), but what if you want to become an English professor? Then it?s not No. 1 for you. Kasky didn?t begrudge the list...
...drug use during the mid-'90s, usage among 12-to-17-year-old kids has fallen from 11.4 to 9.9 percent from 1997 to 1998. That's still more than in the early part of this decade, but at least the pattern of increase has been reversed. Now the bad: The government's annual survey of 25,500 Americans (who apparently have less trouble than George W. Bush in talking about such things) shows that drug usage is still steadily going up among those in their late teens and early 20s. Some 16.1 percent of people aged...
...numbers were all big, and all bad, and if this wasn't the big one, it was close enough. The earthquake that hit western Turkey Tuesday morning at 3 a.m. local time weighed in at a heavy 7.8 on the Richter scale, a number that placed it in the neighborhood of the big (7.9 magnitude) San Francisco quake of 1906. More than 10,000 people are dead, a number that is still going...
Thank you, TIME, for such a balanced feature on someone who was an ordinary person living an extraordinary life. He was close to my age, and in his life I saw my own--at times good, at times bad, always uncertain. In his death, I saw my own frailty. I felt as though he belonged to all of us. I understand the loss that Americans, along with a great number of others, must feel. Today we are all a family mourning the loss of our little boy. ROB ELFORD London...