Word: hours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students at Columbine don't want to wait that long. Eleven of them--their backgrounds as diverse as can be hoped for in this mostly white, Abercrombie and Fitch community--spend an hour one morning sitting around the conference table in the front office. They're brainstorming about what they've learned from their tragedy, and what they plan to do so that it never happens again. "I don't tease my friends as much as I used to," says freshman Kent Van Zant. "I try to be a lot nicer now to everybody...
...going to transform us into little Spielbergs any more than the typewriter created a nation of Fitzgeralds or desktop publishing made our yard-sale flyers look like ads from Madison Avenue. But talent aside, recent advances have made it pretty painless to churn out, say, a half-hour short and give it a global audience inside of a week. If you ever suspected there was a movie inside you, now's your chance...
...York City has adapted a more comprehensive policy of requiring the homeless to go to work in exchange for shelter. A state judge temporarily halted this practice last week in order to consider its legality. Some of the New York provisions are plainly unforgiving: being an hour late to work could mean a loss of benefits for more than 90 days; refusing employment altogether could result in eviction; and evicted parents have been threatened with losing their children to foster care. An outcry over that last threat has put the Giuliani administration on the defensive. "We're not going...
...heard horror stories about how long it would take to install the cable modem. These turned out to be untrue. Since I already had a TV-cable outlet in my home office, it took the cable guy half an hour to plug in the modem, drop an Ethernet card into my PC and configure it all. Bing, bang, I'm online at 5 or more megabits...
...listed those who would be spending it with friends and family, alone with a spouse or alone by themselves, and those who weren't sure yet exactly what they would be doing. But what about the thousands (or maybe millions) of us who will be working through the midnight hour? We don't exist? PETER WARREN Vancouver...