Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last couple of years at Dudley House we've had about a half-dozen mothers that I can remember," Dingman says, adding that most of the mothers he can recall have had very different home lives than either Ocon or Payanzo...
...rain-soaked November afternoon in Las Cruces, N.M., Aaron Soto, 13, traded places with his former East Picacho Elementary School teachers and for two hours conducted an in-service technology-training conference for a dozen of them, arrayed before him around a horseshoe of computer terminals. Aaron, a freshman at Mayfield High School, ran through a series of sophisticated videoconferencing demonstrations. Later he provided individual assistance to his adult "students," pacing behind them, peering over the top of his gold-rimmed glasses to look at a screen or click a mouse...
...flamenco dancers on a third-floor stage supply the entertainment. At either of two bars, customers--all of whom are at least nominally required to show they have come on doctor's orders--can choose from among 10 grades of marijuana leaf, along with capsules, tinctures and half a dozen varieties of pot-laced baked goods. A lavender haze of smoke fills...
...years, the Titanic tragedy has spawned a dozen or so film and TV adaptations. A silent one-reeler, Saved from the Titanic, was released just one month after the event and starred an actress who had been onboard. There was a Teutonic Titanic, a Nazi-financed epic featuring an imaginary German hero. The 1958 British A Night to Remember is still revered for its balance of newsreel realism and humanist pluck. But diving into crowded waters is James Cameron's M.O. Except for The Terminator and The Abyss, all his films have been sequels or remakes, each grander and pricier...
...Julia moved to the Web, where she's lived ever since, more or less unmolested by the two dozen souls a day who stumble across her. Mauldin, meantime, graduated from bots to spiders. A researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, he designed Lycos, one of the first search engines on the Web. But Julia remained his first love. And earlier this year he started a company in Pittsburgh, Pa., called Virtual Personalities Inc., that will transplant Julia's artificial intelligence into other onscreen beings. He wants to build online games that even girls will play. "Boys like video games because they...