Word: basic
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...said he considers basic education a human right. "Education is the key to life," he said, and added that it was unfortunate that just as African countries' interest in aid for development is increasing, the aid being offered is decreasing...
...little copper wires, when the efficiencies of IT are realized as a world of virtual transactions, virtual financial records and interconnected databases, isn't that rather thin ice? When the economy of the world's only superpower goes online, what happens if the system crashes? "The Internet is just basic communications infrastructure that creates huge benefits, but it also creates significant vulnerabilities to hackers, crackers and even terrorists," he says. "Computer security, I think, is a significant problem, and it's going to get worse before it gets better...
...About Mary), and Miramax wouldn't mind if you thought Outside Providence was more of the same. But adapting a novel by Peter and working with director Michael Corrente, the siblings, who also produced this film, maintain their best quality, which is a kind of unblinking frankness about our basic humanity, while skipping the bathroom jokes. You won't miss them...
...time to get serious, the homework helper suggests essay topics, then shows how to research and organize a report. Kids can cut and paste information onto electronic "note cards" included in the program, then export them to a word processor for editing and arranging. In addition to the basic encyclopedia entries for each topic, there are well-chosen Web links. These proved to be just what I needed for my personal research on the Dalai Lama. I subsequently skipped to the dictionary for a definition of Buddhism and then went to the atlas to pinpoint Tibet. Having all those resources...
...whole world knew she was troubled--that was, in fact, part of her "Shy Di" appeal. Those who immersed themselves in the turbulent life and times of Diana, Princess of Wales, knew about her struggles with bulimia, her tendency to throw herself down stairs, her unwise love affairs, her basic inability to stick with any notion for much longer than it took her to tire of her latest--albeit fabulous--hairstyle...