Word: junks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after a swell of parent demands, expanded the program this fall to 1,000. In Texas, state-school-board president Jack Christie is pushing a proposal to junk textbooks and outfit 4 million students with portable computers complete with Internet access and a CD-ROM drive. He hasn't converted everyone yet, but vows it's "just a matter of time." Says Christie: "There are pockets of resistance--in the same way that people opposed the space program...
...debate rages on. Is "90210" as kitsch and cliche was some partisans claim, will the trashy plots of "Melrose" doom it to the TV junk heap, and can Bailey and the gang provide enough melodrama to sustain Harvard's "`Party' parties?" Only time will tell...
...game show in development that was looking for contestants (no, not "Singled Out"). It was a quiz show called "Idiot Savants," which tested players' academic and pop culture knowledge in exchange for valuable merchandise (no cash prizes, unfortunately). The opportunity to benefit from the sheer mass of the junk I had stuffed into my head over the years snared me easily...
...understand what the hell is going on with my body," says Baiul, who can be so charmingly candid and emotional that her body contorts in punctuation marks. What happened was that she had grown 4 in. and 20 lbs., and if there was a new balance somewhere in her junk-food-fed frame, she hadn't found...
...move itself was a little rough--mostly because we had to pack up about 75 years of accumulated junk," said then-president Walkowitz in a 1991 interview. "But we've managed to adapt pretty well since January...