Word: clocked
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...light of the earlier suicides, Amber's and Alicia's deaths hit San Pedro High particularly hard. Cyndy Lum, a psychiatric social worker who was part of the crisis-intervention team, describes the scene the first few days after the suicides hit the 6 o'clock news as "a large-scale psychiatric disaster." Students clustered in hallways weeping; classes sat numb and silent; teachers broke down at an after-school meeting. Says math teacher Crosby: "It was the roughest teaching day I've ever had." Because teenagers--impulsive and susceptible to fashion in all things--are considered particularly vulnerable...
Meanwhile, in Lynwood, a largely ethnic neighborhood of Los Angeles, another Union Summer group gathered at 8 o'clock on a recent morning across the street from the Superior Super Warehouse and readied for a "blitz." "You'll be scared," warned veteran organizer Lois Elbornetti. "But don't worry, just have fun." The students had to "roach" the nonunion store--they entered en masse, headed for the back, then spread like cockroaches. They quickly handed out leaflets with the phone number of the United Food & Commercial Workers to all employees. And got out fast. The plan went like clockwork, with...
There are two seconds left on the game clock, and college football's national championship is on the line. Nervous fans watching on television across the country hold their breath as the kicker readies himself for a 55-yd. field-goal attempt. They look over his shoulder as he peers between the goalposts, deep into the recesses of...a Ruffles potato-chip...
...honeybees has clearly exacerbated the pollination crisis, but the bees' demise has also served to focus attention on the potential of "native" (as opposed to imported) pollinators. "We need to remember that tens of thousands of other species have been out there all along, working shifts around the clock," says Pollinators co-author Nabhan, director of science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum...
...summer after my junior year I decided to work in a lab in Paris. It was interesting work, and I could use my newfound knowledge later on in the summer to explain to my German teacher what might be the cause of her battle with the 5 o'clock shadow. Of course I couldn't be too sure about it--I only knew that "Daisy" (a kind of gene) might have caused some of her problems. But at the end of the month I craved sunshine, and it started to grate on me that I had to take...