Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public school student's day, mounting evidence shows that information should be made available to young people - outside of the home. The fact remains that many teens don't get ANY straight facts about sex at home. For example, rates of pregnancy among Hispanic teens have been slower to drop than among other population groups. This week, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy released a survey showing just how much at risk that population remains: While 90 percent of Hispanics feel teen pregnancy is a problem in their community, only 48 percent of Hispanic parents said they had ever...
...went, and by the end of the night, we had addressed over 100 envelopes, 86 of them to women and we were ready to do our door-drop. Unfortunately, it was raining. (In fact, every time we ve ever had to do something for FM it s been raining.) And so, we opted to delegate, tapping Crimson presidential hopeful, Joshua Hal Simon. The "Little Magician of 14 Plympton," as he was affectionately known, jumped at the chance to demonstrate his dedication...
...tweezers consist of two carbon nanotubes connected to electrodes on nanometer-sized glass tubes. Voltages applied to the electrode open and close the tweezers, allowing them to pick up and drop molecules...
...series of obstacles that bounce them in a meaningless direction. After shooting out of college at high speed you slam into a four-figure monthly rent and you careen towards a career in I-banking. You're hit by 90-hour weeks, you fizzle out, lose steam, and drop into law school. There you bump into a nice guy, slide into marriage and emerge from law school with an infant child, student loans, the need to buy a house--so you become an analyst...
...first year alone to help these kids. Why so much? Because a mountain of research shows that ending social promotion doesn't work if it just means more Fs. Kids who are simply forced to repeat grades over and over usually don't improve academically and often drop out. Zacarias wanted more tutoring, summer school and intensive-learning classes. Unqualified students wouldn't rise to the next grade; nor would they be doomed to redo work they already failed...