Word: drops
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...blessing of a fractious body of overseers. And now that a third of Washington's kids are in charter schools, there is intense pressure on the public system to keep the students it still has. If they keep fleeing the system at the current rate, enrollment will drop 50% every 10 years...
...people have MacGyvered setups like it on their own. The first thing it does after you turn it on is ask your weight, which is a little confrontational. It then asks your weight every time you use it, as if to say, "Jeez, still?" Visitors--you get more office drop-bys when you have a weird walking desk than when you have doughnuts--sweetly avert their eyes as the weight question comes up. Apart from that, my week using it was not unlike a regular workweek. Here's the, ahem, rundown...
...Veering off track. Resisting the urge to Google Are we there yet? No longer quite so friendly to drop-bys. ("Yes, it's a treadmill." "Not that difficult, but I'm a practiced walker." "I am working...
...economic crisis following the Soviet collapse, music was the one thing that held the island together, a common passion for both revolutionaries and reactionaries. The government understood its power; that's why supergroup La Charanga Habanera was banned for months in the '90s after using a military helicopter to drop the group onstage for a stripteasing, innuendo-filled concert on national TV. It was, someone clearly decided, too decadent, too American...
...South America organization, In the Running donated $10,000 to A Drop in the Ocean, a Harvard non-profit organization that supports grassroots microfinance institutions in developing Latin American communities. The transaction will be formalized within the next few weeks, Sprague said...