Word: letting
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...superstitious about calling it a miracle: I don't want to invite further attention from the evil eye. But let me whisper that as far as I am concerned, the news about gene therapy is very good...
...first name, so I halted mid-syllable, fearing a partial answer would help my competition. This defensive strategy, while clever, wasn't necessary, since the question was about plants. But my noise was disarming enough to cause the host to walk over to me and say, "Joel, let me ask you one thing: Are you out of your mind?" This too made...
...Let my story be a warning. On the first week of Millionaire, contestant Paul Locharernkul said to Regis, "I feel like I'm sitting on the toilet and all of America is watching me." Think about it: even if you ace the questions, you might say something like that on prime-time television. So, please, if you need to gamble your dignity, do it by videotaping your kid throwing a basketball at your groin and sending it to America's Funniest Home Videos. That's easy money...
...LET THERE BE LIGHT There is good news for families on both sides of the church-state divide. A broad coalition of religious, educational and civil-liberties groups agreed last week to encourage schools to make study about the Bible "an important part of a complete education." Log in at http://209.130.44.53/bps/bpsfaguide01.htm for the guidelines they developed to help teachers include academic instruction about the Bible in literature and history courses, without proselytizing. Developing better teacher training is the next step, says the National Bible Association...
...took intervention from Illinois' Republican Governor George H. Ryan and state school superintendent Glenn W. McGee to get the board to reduce the expulsions from two years to one and to let the youths enroll in an alternative-education program. The board has not agreed to McGee's proposal, which Jackson supports, that they consider re-admitting the boys midway through the year if their performance in alternative school demonstrates that they've learned their lesson. To make matters worse, the local prosecutor overreacted, getting four of the boys indicted for "mob action," a felony. Jackson fired back by urging...