Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learned how to make friends with people, just because they're there," says Cardozo's mentee, Rebecca E. Slatin, 13. "I wouldn't normally get to know some of the girls or some of the mentors in the program, and I got to know them and they're nice...
...courses I take about adolescent girls' development they kind of get lumped together in a group," she says. "They're all individuals...It's important to know all the theory behind what's going on, but sometimes you have to put the book down and look at her and listen to her, even if it isn't what the book says...
However, Knowles cautioned that plans are not yet concrete. "We don't yet know the precise configuration of occupancy [of the building]," Knowles wrote in an e-mail message...
...Seif wrote to Washington requesting a pension increase, complaining of neuralgia, lumbago, catarrh, headaches and heart trouble. By 1927, the year he died, Seif was receiving $90 a month, an amount granted, according to notes from a nameless bureaucrat, because he was blind and totally helpless. "I didn't know that," says Konecny, shaking her head sadly. Turning over the last papers, she sees in the place marked for her great-great-grandfather's signature a large X made in black ink by a trembling hand. For a moment, she has a glimpse back into her family's past...
...dissent even within the "ultra-Darwinist" ranks. M.I.T. linguist Steven Pinker finds the ideas of memetics intriguing and occasionally even useful but doesn't quite believe it's a science. Nor does he accept the nest-of-memes view of consciousness. "To be honest, I don't even know what that means," admits Pinker. The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection. It doesn't account for the self that responds subjectively, that feels sensations such as love, envy and pain. "Babies are conscious," he points out. "That...