Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yahoo!, the éminence grise of search engines, may be grise no longer: It's heading into the shop for a redesign, and its signature default gray background is on the chopping block. "It's actually still on the table," says Tim Brady, VP in charge of production at Yahoo!, adding that "All the new browsers are defaulted to white anyway." This is Yahoo!'s first face-lift in over a year. Why? The new face of Yahoo! makes more of the site's content accessible from the front page, including news feeds and a link to its gaming site...
...sent you to when you were little? That inspiring high-school English teacher, Mr. Perry, who always knew you were a poet inside? Or maybe it was all those grueling afternoons spent practicing the viola when you would have preferred being outside, playing with the kids on your block. Merit is enabled by all of the above and more. Merit is a promise, an investment in human capital. And this investment necessitates time, encouragement and, of course, money...
...ground, and Natalie had blood coming out of her head, but the blood just didn't look real. When Paige fell, I thought she was just diving to the ground." Alisha wasn't the only one in denial. As Candace Porter, 11, collapsed against one of the cinder-block walls of the building, another student shouted, "Don't worry, don't worry, it's all fake!"--to which the bleeding Candace responded, "No it's not! I just got shot!" And then the undeniable masks of pain came over the faces of the fallen...
...dozen shipments of stun guns and shock batons over the past decade to Saudi Arabia despite that country's long history of brutalizing prisoners. American firms must obtain a Commerce Department license to export shock weapons to most countries, and officials say the applications are closely screened to block the items from falling into the hands of human-rights abusers. Yet Air Taser has been negotiating to supply thousands of electric-shock riot shields for crowd control to police in Turkey, where torture is "widespread," according to State Department human-rights reports. South Africa's new CMax prison for hardened...
...loose, writing gags just for the joy of it. He's written 20 or so plays, five original screenplays he's directed, seven scripts for hire, two novels, four children's books and a load of collected essays. Whatever the word is for the opposite of a writer's block--writerrhea?--Mamet...