Word: know
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some may come to walk the same streets as did Joyce, Yeats, Swift or Wilde, or take in the enchanting architecture and countryside. Ivan Filbi, director of international student affairs at Trinity College Dublin, simply credits the quality of the schooling. Americans come there, he says, because "they know they're going to get a jolly good education at a very top school." Trinity College, founded in 1592 and located on a romantic 45-acre campus in the heart of Dublin, is a top draw. So is University College Galway, a theatrical and cultural center on Ireland's west coast...
Violence is not the only negative trait that runs in some stepfamilies, say experts. "We know that there's less of a sexual taboo in stepfamilies because you don't have the biological connection," says Dr. James H. Bray, author of Stepfamilies: Love, Marriage and Parenting in the First Decade. As a result, says Bray, "if a woman is about to remarry, she really ought to get to know her spouse and know some of her potential spouse's family history, because we know that sexual and physical abuse tends to run in families...
...half a dozen heart patients have died while undergoing a different form of gene therapy. These patients were already desperately ill, however, and it's not clear that the treatments had anything to do with their death. Gene therapy shows great promise, but anyone who is considering it should know that it's still very experimental...
HELPING-HAND ORG. Sure you know how to trade stocks online, but when you want to give, where do you go? The hungersite.org makes free-food donations to the U.N. World Food Project every time it receives a hit. All you have to do is look at the ads. SECONDHARVEST.ORG distributes food to the needy in over 100 U.S. cities. And e-shopping sites like IGIVE.com allow shoppers to designate a portion of the purchase price to the nonprofit of their choice...
...final moments in the cockpit apparently gives no hint of any malfeasance, nor does it offer any other explanation for the crisis to which the crew were responding. And that means we may have to reconcile ourselves with the maddening possibility that, once again, we may never know...