Word: falle
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...cameras in black boxes will monitor classrooms. To safeguard such valuable school property as TVs and VCRs, Sandia has implanted each appliance with coded microdots that contain the name of the school and a serial number, which makes equipment easier to identify and recover. For the first time this fall, Permian will deploy drug and alcohol test kits, drug- and explosives-sniffing dogs and portable metal detectors for random searches...
Furrow's downward spiral entered its final twist last fall. In late October, he took a 12-week leave from his job as a computer-assisted-design engineer at Northwest Gear, a maker of aircraft parts in Everett, Wash. Then he started drinking. One afternoon, in the depths of that bender, he tried to check himself into Fairfax Psychiatric Hospital. Babbling about having stabbed himself a few days before, he also boasted that he had a gun in his car. When an administrator took his keys and warned him that she would have to call the police, Furrow thrust...
...species of monkeys, antelopes, whales and hawks walk, swim or fly the earth, to say nothing of beetles, whose hundreds of thousands of species inspired biologist J.B.S. Haldane's famous quip that God must have had "an inordinate fondness" for them. Even our closest kin, the great apes, fall into four species, divided into several subspecies...
Saturation? Not in the eyes of viewers--many of the programs pull down their network's highest ratings--or of the new competitors and big names jumping on the bandwagon. This fall VH1 adds The Road to Fame, on rising bands; CNBC is preparing the as yet unscheduled In Profile with Bob Costas, on sports, entertainment and (especially) business luminaries; and MSNBC launches Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer (one hour every weeknight) on Sept. 27. "I can't honestly say there will be huge differences" between Headliners and existing shows, concedes executive producer Tim Uehlinger. "It's taking what Biography...
...willing to go further and say the government had really "turned a corner" in combating illegal drug usage. And, proclaimed White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey, "the fact that the numbers are best for the youngest age group [12-17] is a harbinger that use will continue to fall as this group grows older." By underplaying the numbers, Clinton is probably taking the right approach. "What you don't know is whether this is the result of a run of strong antidrug messages and advertisements from the White House, or a stronger economy," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan...