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...told that girls get pregnant here everyday and that 99 percent of them get abortions," Ocon says. "It shocked me. It didn't click until almost a year, when Bailey had already been born and I was planning my return to Harvard, as to what that meant. There are so many financial and psychological disincentives to being a parent here...
...around a horseshoe of computer terminals. Aaron, a freshman at Mayfield High School, ran through a series of sophisticated videoconferencing demonstrations. Later he provided individual assistance to his adult "students," pacing behind them, peering over the top of his gold-rimmed glasses to look at a screen or click a mouse...
...roommate of the Gore-like character in the movie version of Segal's book. When Jones won an Oscar in 1994 for The Fugitive, Gore tried to phone congratulations to him backstage, "but somebody kept hanging up on me," Gore said. "It was, 'Sure you're Al Gore'--click." Then he moved on, grabbing a cocktail napkin to diagram a new system for making Internet connections via satellite. Through it all, he never let anything slip or allowed the conversation to turn back to the job. When he praised a pbs documentary on Harry Truman, a reporter observed that...
Still, Harvard is confident that, given the early-season struggles over the past two seasons, the offense will begin to click following the holiday break as it has historically, in time for Ivy League play...
There is no evidence of a conspiracy. "Some [of the crimes] may be copycats," notes police sergeant Dennis Cribari. But Carl Raschke, a University of Denver professor who tracks hate groups, is not reassured: "These people don't have to know each other. They click on the same Websites, they listen to the same music, they know the code." Last week, he surmises, they began a "game of chicken" with city authorities. Denver residents fear the game could take more tragic turns before it's over...