Word: homework
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When I was 13 it was Barbara Cartland (who was, as it happens, Princess Di's stepgrandmother). She produced a new novel roughly every 10 days - by the '90s she'd sold more than a billion books - so I could buy four and disappear for the weekend (homework was minimal back in the Dark Ages) and never run out. They were all essentially the same. Dark, mysterious, wealthy hero is too damaged to love deeply. Smart, passionate, innocent heroine finds herself in harm's way. Hero rescues; villains are vanquished; vows are exchanged. And a chaste kiss at the happily...
...Hospitals don’t make a $25 million decision without doing the research. They put a lot of thought into where it’s going to go, what services it will provide,” Erwin said. “They do all of that homework before they put the shovel in the ground, and if it gets that far along, they’ll be able to withstand the scrutiny.” —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...nighttime with the intent to commit felony, according to the Harvard University Police Department public log. Garcia, who goes by Carlo, is a biology concentrator in Cabot House. He entered at least two rooms while their inhabitants were in bed and tried to talk to them about the homework for Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics.” The arrest occurred merely five hours into Garcia’s 21st birthday, but HUPD declined to comment on whether Garcia was under the influence of alcohol or other substances. “I had no idea...
...network might need to limit the flow of some information in order to protect some uses of the network against others. “You could imagine a world in which everyone was trying to watch movies at the same time and no one could access their homework at that time,” said Palfrey. While Zimmerman said that the Internet is “more or less a neutral network,” he added that some practices—such as ESPN 360, which is only made available through certain Internet service providers—make...
...instructor, she said, it is hard to inspire students about material that is more stylized, such as the “little examples and problems” students are traditionally assigned in homework assignments...