Word: drift
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...more than 13,000 books, and a new computer lab will open this fall. But the school has no gymnasium, no theater, no after-school clubs and no instrumental-music classes. Kids are required to attend mainstream schools if their families get settled. In practice, however, scores of children drift in and out of Pappas for years, partly because it's such a nurturing place. A student who shows up with dirty clothes will get new ones. There's a medical clinic on campus. And nearly every kid takes home a box of food each month along with toothpaste, shampoo...
...elected representatives has moved on, with two thirds of the electorate having consistently favored Juan Miguel Gonzalez's right to take his son home and once-angry legislators having quietly allowed plans for a congressional inquiry into the Easter Saturday raid on the Little Havana home to drift off into the ether. The story that had supplanted the death of Princess Diana and stood second only to the O. J. Simpson trial in the extent of network news coverage had all but disappeared from the media over the past six weeks, as Elian and five Cuban playmates romped around estates...
...Eminem raps that he "became a commodity/because I'm W-H-I-T-E/cause MTV was so friendly to me." Maybe someday we'll get to the colorblind place. Maybe some day Britney and Ricky and Eminem and DMX will sit around a campfire and their voices will drift up to the sky: "Kum ba yah, my Lord, Kum ba yah..." But for now, guys like Eminem have an advantage, and they're working it for all it's worth...
...oceans' future depends most of all on international cooperation. Working through the U.N., the world's nations have banned giant drift nets and drafted a fishing treaty to bring responsibility to the high seas. But it won't go into force until 30 nations ratify it; 25 have done so. Among top fishing nations, Japan is noticeably absent. The country relies heavily on seafood and yet is exceptionally disrespectful toward the ocean. It has disregarded international quotas on catches of southern bluefin tuna and used "scientific research" as a bogus justification for hunting whales in the International Whaling Commission...
...Friday's sell-off, prompted by the latest inflation figures and fears of interest rate hikes, may have forced traders to begin a more stringent selection process. It's increasingly difficult to predict an upward drift in whole sectors, and the strategy of hedging Dow investments against NASDAQ buys came unstuck Friday when they dived in concert. Still, it's a safe bet that somethinghas to go up, since Friday's sell-off has sent hundreds of billions of dollars roaming in search of new homes. Whether it be bonds or utilities or safer tech stocks or safer blue chips...