Word: concepting
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...named Alan Alborn (nicknamed, of course, Airborn). Alborn, 21, is 5 ft. 11 in. and 130 lbs., as strong as steel, and he's been jumping since he was 9. His fear of flying kept him from early greatness, but he has finally broken that barrier. With a "frog concept" technique that has him squatting low on the inrun and then exploding high at takeoff, he can now soar more than 200 m. With the home crowd pumping him up-a big factor for jumpers-he could bring home the team's first medal in 78 years...
...authors assert that a number of factors, including universities’ response to the Vietnam War and the campus turmoil of the 1960s. The rise of the concept of “student as consumer” in the 1980s, when students and parents began to see education as a product and grades as indicative of its quality, also contributed to grade inflation...
...show’s conclusion, in Eliot’s Small Dining Room, Sheri J. Ward ’03 disrupts and disconcerts with a distortion of the world as we’re used to seeing it. Hints of dementia accompany an off-putting malleability of shape and concept, giving Ward’s pieces a power and mystery all their...
Kevin Williamson's ideas just sound like money. The man who created Dawson's Creek and wrote the movies Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer has the ability to think like a teenager and a marketing executive at the same time. His concept for Glory Days (the WB, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) is flawless: if the only reason Murder, She Wrote isn't still on the air is that its viewers brought in only Depend commercials, then make a Murder, She Wrote for teens. The lead character here is dark but likable young mystery novelist Mike Dolan...
...slightest concern at their treatment; they are being treated vastly better than they treated anybody else" as an unacceptable legal standard. The British magazine offers a thoughtful assessment of the various legal options open to the U.S. and concludes with a cautionary note: "America is fighting for the very concept that no one, not even terrorists, are beyond the reach of the law - but that has to mean the law's protections, as well as its punishments...