Word: extras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even in the football world, when you got over the fact that people would question your toughness, your ability, your grit, you knew that you had the extra intelligence because you went to Harvard," he adds...
...Using data from the 1960s through the 1980s, she found that choosing a college two "tiers" above another, the cheaper school in an eight-tiered national rankings system usually paid back the extra tuition money within a few years, and students always broke even within a decade...
Hench and Oslowski have a fabulous supporting cast. Sophomores Mike Peller, Joey Smolen and Marko Soldo are all lethal scoring threats and should provide the Crimson with the extra kick it needs late in a game...
...scientists bred strains of mice with extra copies of a gene coded for a protein that can facilitate communication between neurons. Since one popular theory of memory relates this primary mental capacity to an organism's ability to make associations--say, between a bee's buzz and the pain of its bite--this enhanced communication might promote the recording of associations within the brain, thus creating memories...
...want to give your teen something sophisticated to go with dinner, try offering an extra portion of you. A different survey of 2,000 teenagers released last week shows a direct relationship between teen substance abuse and the lack of close familial connections--especially between children and their fathers. I asked my group of college students what they thought society could do for them--more ad campaigns, safer campuses, a lower drinking age? To a person, they said the real education should happen at home, starting well before they are teenagers, maybe as young as age seven. ("By the time...