Word: hums
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Sure, I’ve had my share of awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student’s set of badly hidden headphones...
...title of the study sounds ho-hum enough: "New Lives for Poor Families?" But the results being published this week by researchers at Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford and Yale could cause trouble for Bush's welfare-reform plans. Funded in part by the Department of Health and Human Services since the Clinton Administration, the report charts the effects of 1996 welfare reforms on more than 700 mothers and their young children. The overall picture is bleak. While mothers' earnings rose modestly, many still lived in roach-infested housing, had to skimp on food and spent fewer hours singing and telling stories...
Alanis Morissette has been responsible for some of the catchiest radio songs of the past decade. Her hooks and melodies are consistently memorable and, like it or not, after a few listens it's almost impossible not to hum along. The problem has never been the music, but the pretentious and overly literal lyrics. Both "Jagged Little Pill" and "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" painted a picture of an obsessive ex-girlfriend with a little too much time on her hands. "Under Rug Swept," Morissette's latest release falls prey to the same shortcomings...
...shaped lollipops, cheesy greeting cards and a mutually dependent, sensitive partner who has strategically arranged rose petals on a bed draped in freshly pressed satin sheets. But for singles, the day can seem more like a burden as they endure exposure to public displays of affection and the abrasive hum of those three little words: “I love you.” Fret not! FM offers three other little words guaranteed to combat loneliness: Do it yourself...
...city that boasts many a mom-and-pop restaurant, numerous Harvard students have yet to find a place where everybody knows your name and they’re always glad you came. While these uninformed students continue to schlep to Au Bon Pain and the Kong for ho-hum grub, a welcoming alternative awaits them a few blocks toward Central Square—the unassuming Friendly Eating Place...