Word: barriere
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...with riffs on the perils of staying up late (night guy vs. morning guy) and extreme sports ("What's the point of helmets in skydiving?"). Even the master himself occasionally flubbed, however, as with a moldy one-liner asking, What's so great about Australia's shark-infested Great Barrier Reef? Predictably--but sadly--the loudest roars came when Seinfeld agreed to impersonate characters from his show, including Costanza, Kramer and Newman. A crowd pleaser, but not exactly groundbreaking stuff...
...memorized their names with relative ease. It is now the fourth week of this two month program, and I know each of my nine campers vastly better than I knew my Peace Games students. And I'm discovering with more and more certainty that time is only one barrier to relating to these children. During our unit on immigration, my campers were aghast to discover that I hadn't grown up in Boston. Utah? Small town? They were surprised and more than a little bit critical of roots from outside New England. During a discussion of ancestry, one child staunchly...
...home; in Roseburg, Ore. One of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated pilots, Carl shot down 16 Japanese planes over Guadalcanal and flew combat missions in Vietnam while in his 50s. He set an air-speed record in 1947, soon eclipsed when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier two months later...
...black people lacked "some of the necessities" to be major league managers; in Fullerton, Calif. As short stop on the Dodgers farm team, Campanis worked with second baseman Jackie Robinson to perfect the double play. But during a 1987 ABC tribute to his former teammate's breaking the color barrier, Campanis dropped the ball. He was fired two days later...
...plainly, using the Internet is a pain for anyone who is not fluent in English. American English, that is. For many in Hong Kong, where English is more often used than in the mainland, this barrier nevertheless poses a great inconvenience. The people at the newspaper office where I work here have told me that many aspects of computer and Web use require knowledge of English. For programming and coding, many commands make no sense unless they know the related words in English; otherwise, they have to rely solely upon hard-core memorization. Even if people study their textbooks well...