Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child development, than in high school, where students are judged by performance. "High school inclusion has little or no relevance in the lives of the severely disabled," says one high school special-ed. director in a Boston suburb. "The kids are often miserable because they have no friends except their tutors. I think parents are beginning to realize this...
...prolong their own childhoods through years of higher education and sheltered internships. They can spend money on therapies that explore the "inner child." They get to play too, well into the Centrum Silver years, at the kind of outdoor sports any kid would love. All of which is fine, except when these charming traits are combined with indifference toward the condition of actual children...
...have been present in the building every day on the days of votes except for [nine days in which he was hospitalized] since the beginning of my service," he said...
...Cornell (5-8, 1-3), the Dartmouth victory helped put a positive note on what had been a disappointing season. Except for a 4-1 victory over Columbia--a team that's in its first year of varsity play--Cornell had not beaten a team in October before Dartmouth. Of the Big Red's five defeats this month, however, four had been by just one goal...
...Books. Discounting the relatively pathetic selection offered on its two lower floors, the Coop is still heralded as the textbook king (a.k.a. monopolist textbook hoarder). Why? Harvard gives the Coop a monopoly on the needed texts for all of its classes, except when the professor chooses to purchase elsewhere. Wouldn't it make sense to supply reading lists and class enrollments to all the local bookstores so that students would benefit from price competition...