Word: ducking
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Everybody needs to play. Kids especially learn by playing. They pick up counting skills from duck-duck-goose and learn strategy from checkers, card games and sports. So when they play violent video games, are they learning to kill and maim? Many parents began asking this question when they learned that the Columbine killers were avid players of Doom--a game that teaches killing skills so effectively that the U.S. military uses a modified version to train its soldiers...
...Dalrymple tells it, when the Immigration and Naturalization Service agents stormed into the house just after 5 a.m., he grabbed Elian and fled to a bedroom, locking the door and then trying to duck into a closet. But the closet was crammed too full of clothes, and they could not close the folding doors. "Help me!" Elian cried. "Help...
...have superseded the concerns of the world's other major nuclear power in Washington's thinking. If Moscow believes nuclear parity is threatened, it may be no more receptive to the take-it-or-leave it brinkmanship of the GOP leaders than to the soothing salesmanship of a lame-duck Bill Clinton...
...School" in Moyock, N.C., a $45,000 facility specifically built to simulate Columbine-style carnage. A school-hostage drill in Pinellas County, Fla., last month featured 600 middle schoolers hiding inside locked-down classrooms. It was enough to make baby-boomer parents long for the good old days of duck-and-cover...
Fortunately for Gore, he was able to duck the question on the ground that he couldn't comment on an active lawsuit. If Gore had wanted to be mean, he might have asked how many stock options his interrogator had and whether that number had any impact on his decision to come to work every day. The human capacity for grievance is deep and universal. Even among these most rational members of the species, grievance seems immune to the reality that "unfair to Microsoft" is the world's least sympathetic cri de coeur, even if it's true...