Word: forkful
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Even colleges with significantly more restrictive study-abroad policies manage to ship off far higher numbers of students. The University of Pennsylvania, for example, requires its study-abroad students to fork over to its institution’s coffers the difference in cash they would otherwise be saving by studying at international universities, which are usually cheaper. University of Pennsylvania study-abroad students consistently number over 600 a year...
...estimated that over 50% of us will endure a traumatic loss at some point in our lives. When that happens, we all face a similar fork in the road to recovery. Do we dare act normal again, or does doing so deny the event, since nothing is ever the same...
Rick Shannon senses that something is wrong when the retired record producers he has been hired to find keep turning up freshly murdered--one with a fork still sticking out of his back. Shannon is a weeknight DJ at a classic-rock station in Vicksburg, Miss., who runs a detective agency by day. The case that drives this Southern-fried page-turner revolves around a dying cotton dynasty, an OxyContin-popping former football star and tapes of a late-night blues session that have been missing for 50 years. Fitzhugh's dialogue is as cool as a pitcher of iced...
...show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use. "If it were just about food, we would squirt it into their mouths with a tube," says Robin Fox, an anthropologist who teaches at Rutgers University in New Jersey, about the mysterious way that family dinner engraves our souls. "A meal is about civilizing children. It's about...
...most prominent white businessmen - Joe Canizaro and Donald "Boysie" Bollinger - who are close to the White House, but neither has come out publicly for him so far. If Nagin can't match the third of the white vote that Landrieu received, then, the pollster Pinsonat says, "stick a fork in [him], he's done...