Word: leaping
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...Believing that the Bears, whom Harvard beat 112-54 in the last game of the 1997-98 season, were serious took a leap of faith. Earl Hunt and his game-high 39 points helped me make it. After scoring 19 points with nine rebounds and five assists in Brown's 79-63 win over Dartmouth on Friday, Hunt is establishing himself as a real threat...
...need to have an abortion. But the biggest factor could be much more simple than that - studies show that teen and "casual" adult sex have decreased steadily throughout the decade. And since most abortions are of unintended pregnancies by unmarried women, it doesn't take much of a leap to see that the number of these pregnancies drops off with the changing attitudes toward casual sex. The source of these changes is difficult to pinpoint, with some saying they come from increased sex education and others citing a fear of the swinger's lifestyle in the wake of the AIDS...
...down by schoolchildren in Colorado; 12 people died building a bonfire in Texas; six fire fighters died fighting a blaze in a warehouse in Massachusetts; six Marines and a Navy man fell to their death in a helicopter exercise off the coast of San Diego. Our insistently enlightened minds leap to "solve" such things, but their effect on our spirits has more to do with our helplessness. Helplessness brings us close to one another in silent acts of mourning, to weep for the life we share--with you as well...
...less ready than the Eckharts to dig in to her canned food. The self-designated Martha Stewart of Y2K (her book Y2K for Women: How to Protect Your Home and Family in the Coming Crisis as well as her website, y2kwomen.com give tips on reusable tampons) now fears a leap year computer bug on Feb. 29, among other potential disasters. "We don't know what's going to happen with the economy. If the markets crash or my husband loses his job, we're ready," she says. In Ontario, Bruce Beach, who began constructing a bunker of 42 buried school...
...embarrassed grimace, smiling through the 300-lb.-millet-bag jokes lobbed by your Y2complacent neighbors? Should you be angry, suing all the Engineer Littles who tricked you into believing the sky was falling? Or should you climb back inside, waiting for the systems shutdowns in February because of the leap-year...