Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After stepping out of the shower, Gabriel A. Biller '98 said he heard a crash in the room of his roommate, Ravi C. Chhatpar...
...promotes English-only instruction for students with limited English skills, who comprise more than one fifth of the 5.5 million population. Instead of promising students whose first tongue is not English bilingual education, the new system will force all students not proficient in English into a one-year crash course in the English language. After the year-long course, parents who want to keep their children in bilingual education programs could attempt to do so by seeking a waiver...
...weather, which turned skiers on their heads when it wasn't doing the same to schedules. In the end, however, true grit prevailed: the fastest man on skis, Hermann Maier ("Other Name: Das Monster," his official bio explains), confirmed his extraterrestrial status by getting up from a horrific crash and picking up two golds in four days; his female counterpart, Katja Seizinger, returned to form by winning two golds in two days. Even little Denmark claimed its first Winter medal ever, in curling--quite a feat for a nation that doesn't have a functioning curling rink. For Japan...
While students affected by the crash are caught in a web of unfriendly federal rules, pressure is on schools to find their own solutions. A special Korean Student Association meeting recently suggested making available long-term loans with low interest rates and increasing hiring of international students in academic departments. Jobs, loans, scholarships and fundraisers are the solution...
Just being out here qualifies, if you ask Los Angeles police captain Ron Bergmann, who says more kids than ever are racing. The night of that November crash, he says, police were headed north on San Fernando Road when they saw racers, four abreast, bearing down on them at about warp 6. A 19-year-old Pasadena boy in an '89 Mustang convertible spun around and fled, but his car found a tree...