Word: gravest
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...stimuli, as the scientists call them, that a baby receives. It depends on what the baby sees, hears and touches and on the emotions he or she repeatedly experiences. But if environment matters, we are faced with a question: At a time when children suffer from perhaps the gravest social problems of any group in the U.S., how do we ensure that they grow up in the best environment possible...
Blankenship and David must be allowed to complete their degrees. Upon enrolling students, the University has an obligation to see them through to graduation, even if they make serious mistakes, and to remove them from the community permanently only under the gravest of circumstances--such as when they commit murder. We find it utterly draconian to expel two students, both of whom are just months away from graduation, for a first-time drug - dealing misdemeanor...
...have all the teenage gearheads gone? The Web. Nintendo. The Cineplex Odeon. "It's awful, a terrible habit!" says one of Holy Fire's 21st century Gen Xers. "Reading is so bad for you, it destroys your eyes and hurts your posture and makes you fat." How ironic: the gravest threat to science-fiction literature's future is precisely the future its authors predicted...
...Teach thinkers to think,--a needed knowledge in a day of loose and careless logic; and they whose lot is gravest must have the carefulest training to think aright.... [T]he thinker must think for truth, not for fame." --W.E.B. Du Bois...
These anxious words instantly struck a chord. Forty-one American newspapers and magazines reprinted them. Letters and phone calls flooded the office of Cleveland Press editor Louis Seltzer to tell him he had put his finger on our gravest crisis with his editorial--in the summer...