Word: barely
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...amount of photos of frolicking boys and shaky reasoning can hide the bare facts: boys are clearly lagging behind. It's feared that attention to the so-called boy crisis will hamper achievement by girls in the classroom. But education is not a zero-sum game. Boys and girls thrive under different conditions, and it's time we accommodate the learning styles of both. In a global competition for talent, we cannot afford to handicap any of our children...
...treated, ruled that the habeas-stripping provision of the new law didn't apply to pending cases. Congress quickly responded with yet another law - the Military Commissions Act - removing court jurisdiction over all detainee cases, so the only way a detainee can now challenge his imprisonment is before a bare-bones military commission, and then, in a review limited to whether the commission followed its own rules, before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington...
Still, in this bare-it-all age of the string bikini, when young girls take wardrobe cues from Paris Hilton and body-image pressure is intense, the Burqini swimsuit is making a statement. And that's the point, the designers say: the suits allow women, Muslim or not, to choose comfort over conformity. "I know it sounds like an oxymoron," says Sabet. "But this is really about freedom...
...with one of the youth action teams last month shows that police still have much to do to bring the streets to heel. Gangs of teenage boys are skirmishing over a 1-sq.-km patch of turf in south Auckland. In Electra Place, officers Ott and Stevenson find a bare-chested youth holding a blood-soaked cloth to a 3-cm slash above one eye; his friend is screaming about a gang attack. The victim says the knife wielder has run off into a house a few doors down the street. "The guy with the knife could still be inside...
...change of heart was so powerful and so organic that at first I chalked it up to hormones. What else would explain my reaction if he approached while she nursed, which was to bare my teeth and snarl? Soon my ferocious protectiveness soured into tired irritation. He shed on her burp cloths. He bayed as she napped. He developed a taste for diapers. Our relationship deteriorated to a cycle of infractions followed by scoldings. Before I knew it, I had withdrawn from him his exalted former status. In the span of a few months, I had demoted him from...