Word: homework
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...quarter of a century had passed, after grad school at Yale and a rise to the chair of Harvard’s physics department, that he would realize that women needed some help. And the problem wasn’t that they couldn’t do their homework. “What caught me were statistics that our female undergrads were miserable,” he says. The few women in physics classes who “hadn’t yet been driven away” were being ignored. Women were left out of study groups, and there...
...equal time with each parent after separation - the holy grail of many lobbyists in both Australia and New Zealand. A presumption of shared time would demolish the premise that, during the week, older children need a stable base from which to travel to and from school and do their homework. Arguments about whether equal time was fairer or even practical (for many separated parents and their children it is a logistical nightmare) were a distraction, the inquiry found, from the "primary issue": ensuring that both parents could and would stay involved in their children's lives...
...Members of Congress could use a little primer too, say White House aides, who believe that elected officials wouldn't freeze behind the microphone if they did their homework a little more diligently. ?The members need to get up to speed,? admitted Rep. Mike Oxley of Ohio. But the ?education? better happen soon...
...schedule of Junior Parents Weekend seems to closely mirror parts of student life here at Harvard. There are lectures in the morning, stimulating academic events—like tours of art museums and panel discussions—in the afternoon, and a plenty of time at night for homework and anything else the nocturnal Harvard student can dream up. This schedule may be punctuated by some unrealistic dining hall meals—it’s not a coincidence that they’re serving mahi mahi and salmon on Friday and Saturday—but in the end that?...
...getting a show on Comedy Central? Boy, someone does their homework. Yes. It's got elements of my old show, The Osbournes and dancing babies...