Word: homework
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fallen in love with included Jimmy Fallon, caramel apple lollipops, Jelly Roll pens, and the color cerulean.) But this was different, or at least it felt different.While simultaneously talking to three girlfriends and a boy I liked on AIM, leaving a Testimonial on Friendster, doing homework, and watching an exceptionally good episode of “Scrubs,” a song came on that perfectly matched J.D. and Turk’s medical and emotional struggles. I moved a window on my laptop over and typed the first lyric I had heard into LimeWire, “...took...
...three shots. It appeared as if the Bears had scouted Harris perfectly—they routinely overplayed the sophomore to his dominant left hand, forcing Harris to beat them with his weak right, which he was unable to do. “If you’re doing your homework, you know what guys’ tendencies are,” Brown coach Craig Robinson said. “So we try and force guys into doing things they’re not as comfortable doing.” Harris, who got into early foul trouble and did not attempt...
...That intentional oversight has left a wide-open playing field for the likes of Kajeet. Hatched in 2003, Kajeet's executive team has spent the past few years doing homework, conducting research to figure out what kids want, and how to offer it safely and affordably. Early on, Neal and his two partners, all dads with young kids and extensive hi-tech resumes, decided there'd be no contracts or cancellation fees, to reflect the flexible, whimsical nature of kids themselves. Phone prices will range between $50 and $100, but how much families spend a month for service carried...
...Alert." Under closer scrutiny, it became clear the phone wasn't even switched on. When I asked what she was doing she breezily replied: "I'm just playing. None of my friends have cell phones so I don't actually have anyone to call," she said. If Kajeet's homework pays off, that won't be the case for much longer...
...some parents. Rather, part of her competence as a teacher lay in her sense of when to leave me to chart the daily course, if not the greater trajectory, of my education on my own. Hers was a deliberate lesson in self-sufficiency: When the substance of my "homework" failed to satisfy, I was at liberty to educate myself at the local library. And if, on occasion, a difficult question perplexed even my mother, it was up to me to find the inspiration to move forward...