Word: fall
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...plan, the culmination of a year-long collaborative effort, was created to combat "problem drinking" on college campuses in the wake of MIT first-year Scott Krueger's death last fall and the release of a report on the pervasiveness of college binge-drinking last year...
Harvard students were subjected to heightened security this fall when they tried to access their e-mail accounts. Students had to change their passwords and pass a quiz about proper computer use before they could check their e-mail messages...
...murder charges last Wednesday, accused Kevorkian of airing the video to satisfy his "attention-starved ego." CBS, meanwhile, faced accusations of exploiting the death for ratings. The segment did help boost the show's numbers--the household rating was up 20% over the season average--during the critical fall sweeps period, which sets local advertising rates. Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes' executive producer, insisted his show wasn't pandering for ratings. "I have a low threshold for discomfort, and I was not made uncomfortable by the moment of death," he says. "I didn't see anybody writhing in agony. I didn...
RUNNER-UP Snow. Written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz A town full of skeptical, eccentrically shaped adults is transformed into a playground by the snow everyone says won't fall. What's not to love...
...beings more comfortable, the rates of drunkenness, divorce, brutality and murder would be Lord knows how much higher. Productivity rates would plunge 40% over the world; the deep-sea fishing industry would be deep-sixed; Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel would deteriorate; rare books and manuscripts would fall apart; deep mining for gold, silver and other metals would be impossible; the world's largest telescope wouldn't work; many of our children wouldn't be able to learn; and in Silicon Valley, the computer industry would crash...