Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...born from a frozen embryo implanted in a house cat. But she's not the first rare animal to use a common species' womb. A bongo antelope was born to an eland in 1984 at the Cincinnati Zoo, and two Holsteins, one in Cincinnati and one at the Bronx Zoo, have given birth to gaur, a rare species of wild cattle...
Teaching seemed a natural, uncomplicated career choice for Stacey Moskowitz. "I like children," she says. "I enjoy watching them learn the things you need to do to succeed in life." In 1990, in her mid-20s, she began teaching third grade at Community Elementary School 90 in the Bronx, N.Y., where she learned how to succeed on the school's terms. She says the principal's underlings gave her a list of students along with the order "to make sure they passed" standardized reading exams. On the mornings of such exams, she was given...
...platoon was about half white, another third Hispanic, and the rest black. All classes (except rich kids), all ages (17-28), all parts of the country, from the Bronx to North Dakota to Southern California. Some smart kids, most who didn't have "school" but wanted it, some who'd gone there and dropped out for all the usual follies...
Phuong addressed the question of whether an art form allegedly created in the Bronx belonged in an Asian cultural event by saying that he was Asian and that he grew up with "B-boying...
...meet, which fields the eight Ivy League schools and Navy and consists of 80 runners in the men's and women's races, took place at Van Cortland Park in the Bronx. It serves as the final tune-up for both teams before NCAA Regionals, which is the qualifying round for the NCAA Championship in Indiana later, at Franklin Park on November 13th...