Word: fasts
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...long been assumed that the cavalier behavior of teenagers - driving too fast, engaging in unprotected sex, dabbling in illicit drugs - is due in part to their characteristic disregard for mortality. Teens, as any beleaguered parent of one can attest, usually operate under the presumption that they know it all and will live forever...
...Wuppertal Dance Theater in western Germany, where she had served as director, announced the death. It did not give the cause, but said Bausch's "unexpectedly fast" death came five days after a cancer diagnosis...
...Spain's Canary Islands, where tourism represents upwards of 60% of the local economy, the municipal tourism board recently began a series of seminars to help tourism workers cast off their perceived grumpiness. Course materials advise cabbies to "ensure your taxis smell nice, and don't drive too fast" and remind hotel staff that "a smile costs nothing...
That was three summers ago. Fast-forward to last Monday, when Zitzner was in the audience in Washington as Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appealed to a gathering of charter-school operators to "adapt your educational model to turning around our lowest-performing schools." For months now, Duncan has talked about closing 5,000 - or about 5% - of the nation's lowest-performing public schools. By throwing down the gauntlet to charter schools, Duncan is challenging an industry that has become very proficient at opening up brand-new schools, but has very little experience in going into a preexisting school...
...largest rail transit agencies in the U.S. To replace the nation's elderly equipment and finish station rehabilitations, it would cost roughly $50 billion; keeping the updated system in good repair afterward would run nearly $6 billion a year. (Read: "U.S. Stimulus Puts Bullet Trains on the Fast Track...