Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DIEGO. Within six months of her arrival at Linda Vista Elementary School in July 1987, principal Adel Nadeau custom-tailored a program to fit her 950 students, 62% of whom were from Southeast Asia and spoke little or no English. With the approval of the school district, she and her 33 teachers decided to split...
...fixture in the city's cafes, became for Mark a way of meeting people outside the university. "People are always surprised to see a foreigner sit down and be familiar with a sheesha," says Mark," and they get very curious and friendly. It's a very communal custom...
...Derek I know won't give up on his dreams. After a few high-profile tours of the league, a major advertising 'campaign (Bok knows basketball?) and a custom line of sneakers (Re-Boks?), the job will be his for the asking. Odds...
...raped by three men, again in Fatehpur. In 1989 more than 14,000 anti-Harijan atrocities, including 759 rapes and 479 murders, were registered. Countless others went unrecorded because victims fear the police, who are themselves frequently the perpetrators. Often cruelties against Harijans are considered just part of local custom. In parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, an untouchable couple can consummate their marriage only after the landlord has deflowered the bride...
...remarkable demonstration of the precision with which single atoms can now be manipulated, a skill that could conceivably be used someday to build atom-size transistors or to custom-design molecules. Using an instrument called a scanning tunneling microscope and working on a surface chilled to near absolute zero, researchers Donald Eigler and Erhard Schweizer were able to get individual atoms to respond to the magnet-like tug of a fine tungsten needle. But don't expect to see atom-etching booths at your local science fair. It took 22 hours to haul 35 xenon atoms across the bumpy nickel...