Word: lane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scorpion in our shirt," says Lane. "Glass is a man without honor who operated out of hostility and contempt; he has no place in journalism. I've been racking my brain trying to understand how this could have happened...
...Republic editor Charles Lane fired Glass and began a review of the 40 articles he had written for the magazine since December 1995. So far, the magazine has retracted three of them and admitted that part of a fourth is also bogus. Editors at the magazine have found many other obvious fictions, ranging from cults that venerate unlikely politicians ("The First Church of George Herbert Walker Christ") to phony interest groups (an "Association for the Advancement of Sound Water Policy"). In one story, Glass told readers he had made up a town--"Werty, Iowa"--to test the speciousness...
...kids at Sound View are undisturbed by the steady roar of the six-lane interstate highway across the street. They keep themselves out of trouble with sports--football in the colder weather, baseball when it's warm and basketball, well, basically all of the time...
Marie Guzell, who has lived in North Cambridge for 20 years, said medians serve to break up the road. Their absence "Would make it a four lane highway...
...problem with life in the fast lane is that it might get us to the end sooner than we imagine. I recognize this tendency in my life, and want to change it. So I'm letting those textbooks sit a while longer. And I refuse to set my alarm on Saturday morning...