Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...converted bathroom; Riel Sbar teaches special-needs kids in a hallway; and two other classes have been pushed into dusty corners of the basement. The acting principal, Dianne Scott, wears sneakers to hike to annexes No. 8 and No. 3, which are more than four blocks away, but hip waders would have been better during a storm on May 24. The playground flooded, and she had to pull two classes out of trailers that looked like houseboats...
...very hip, say Uche A. Blackstock '99 and Oni J. Blackstock '99, who attended Stuyvesant High School with Lan. "She has a unique fashion sense," says Uche Blackstock. "She'll wear these mature floral scarves with these overalls with Tweety Bird [on them]. It personifies the contradictions in her personality. Iris is this young-looking woman with this big, brilliant mind...
Bone mass peaks around the age of 20 and declines over the years, so much that elderly bones can fracture easily. The consequences are not merely casts and crutches: about 25% of people with fractures of the hip die within a year because of complications, says Dr. Michael F. Holick, chief of endocrinology, nutrition and diabetes at Boston University medical center, and another 25% spend the rest of their life in nursing homes...
...anyone who factors longevity into his lifetime plan." He probably thought he meant that. But even earlier, as a busy lawyer who had never written before, he used the time while waiting for his court cases to be called to write the 1987 Judd Nelson movie, From the Hip...
Cibo Matto inhabits a strip of sonic territory between the hip-hop nation and the Land of the Rising Sun. The Japanese-American performing duo of Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda released a debut CD in 1996, Viva! La Woman, that was an irrepressible delight, fusing hip-hop rhythms with elusively poetic lyrics about culinary cravings. The duo's new album is more about vocal harmonies and hooky melodies. A few of the songs are four-ambulance conceptual disasters. But most of the tracks have a strange sweetness to them, leaving you feeling as though you've bitten into...