Word: crawlingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually seem to like them. Melissa Hill, a fifth- grader at Socorro's O'Shea Keleher School, had her initial doubts about year-round schooling. "But now I like it a lot," she says. "When I used to wake up in the morning, I felt like I wanted to crawl back in bed. I think it encourages kids to go to school because you always know that you're going to be on break soon." Mireya Reyes, a fifth-grader at Campestre, doesn't miss the old summer vacation either. "In one month we do everything we want," she says...
...first glance, software piracy seems no different from that of any other copyrighted material. Chinese factories stamp out copies of American music CDs by the millions. Pirated American movies regularly appear in Asia and Africa long before their official release on video. (The objects that sometimes crawl across the bottom of the screen turn out on close inspection to be the heads of theater patrons inadvertently videotaped by the bootleggers...
...family and her values were at stake. Still the camera images of the kids are unforgettable, and the President was not above promoting photo ops. One day he brought little John to the Oval Office, and the cameras caught the toddler maneuvering between his father's legs through the crawl space under the Executive desk. And the nation's children came to envy Caroline her pony, the redoubtable Macaroni...
...London Regional Cancer Centre in Ontario. But those that do eventually slip through blood-vessel walls with ease. Using a video camera attached to a microscopic lens, Chambers has watched in wonder as melanoma and breast-cancer cells, injected into mice, become lodged in capillary walls, then crawl out into the liver. Three days later, her camera resolves the spidery shapes of tiny metastatic growths. The lesson, Chambers believes, is depressingly clear. Cancer cells zip in and out of blood vessels so readily that, once angiogenesis occurs, they should be presumed to have already spread around the body...
...matter that Jansen, like most everyone else, changed. His ebullient, cheerful wife Robin bore a daughter. They named her Jane after his sister. Jane was learning to crawl as daddy was lowering the 500 world record to less than 36 sec. in preparation for his final attempt to win an Olympic medal. Jansen told everyone who asked that he was at peace. It was apparent in his eyes, still soft but no longer...