Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately, "Osama's buyers weren't physicists, and the people selling to him were trying to rip him off," says an Energy Department official. The enriched uranium they were offered turned out to be low-grade reactor fuel unusable for a weapon. Another con man tried to sell them radioactive garbage, claiming it was "red mercury," a supposedly lethal Russian bomb the CIA says never existed. Frustrated, bin Laden instead settled on chemical weapons, which are easier to manufacture. Although U.S. intelligence officials have been unable to pinpoint hidden caches, they suspect that during a five-year stay in Sudan...
Winners have to be "starters or key reserves on any officially recognized varsity team with 3.0 or better cumulative grade-point averages...
...Harvard Club of New York City and started an environmental lecture series there that ran from 1991 to '94. A few years later, he asked a former president of the business school club to join with him and a New Jersey school superintendent in a project for fifth-grade students: using their math, geography and social studies knowledge, the students were to design alternative modes of transportation for New Jerseyans commuting to Manhattan's World Trade Center. It was but one of several Linking Industry Nature Knowledge & Systems projects Henn would initiate with the school superintendent...
...three designed their proposal last winter and presented it to the school-district superintendent in May. Within three months, the district had approved it. This fall, the triumphant triumvirate filed for nonprofit status and formed a board of directors. The board appointed Liz Anderson, an eighth-grade teacher and hockey coach, as executive director. Anderson, 27, is technically young enough to be the Woods' granddaughter. "From the first time they met, Liz and Denise have been clicking," says Kennett Middle School principal John Carr...
...also the perfect foil for endlessly up-and-doing Max, who is, perhaps, everything Blume once was, all that he can no longer be. Their eccentricities speak to one another--until they both fall in love with pretty, wistful Miss Cross (Olivia Williams), a young widow who teaches first grade. At this point things fall apart. And to some degree so does the movie...