Word: lift
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Although the classes include both genders, the main goal is to lift the sights and spirits of black boys, most of whom live only with their mothers or grandmothers. "The whole concept is to get the kids to look at themselves," says Albert Pearsall III, a computer security-programs manager at the U.S. Department of Justice who teaches black history, along with a traditional second-grade curriculum. "If I can work effectively in a professional career, why can't these kids...
...Litter lift. More than 60,000 citizens, including students, officials and civic and business leaders, are expected to fan out along 9 km (15 miles) of Winnipeg, Canada, roadways to pick up trash and debris...
...turn, Israel has increased its own vigilance. Last week the country dramatized its determination to maintain a military and technological edge by launching Ofek-2, a satellite intended to spy on its immediate neighbors. The lift-off proved that Israel has missiles capable of carrying a warhead 1,500 miles, well within range of Baghdad. Since last July, Israel and the U.S. have been working on a ground-based missile that can fly nearly two miles a second, the speed required to intercept a tactical ballistic missile at high altitude. The program, called ARROW, is 80% funded by Washington. Israel...
Interestingly, ASNE's respondents thought their papers were now doing a good job on AIDS coverage. Says Leroy Aarons, an acknowledged gay who is senior vice president for news of the Oakland Tribune and director of ASNE's survey: "AIDS served to lift the curtain on a previously taboo area of our society." It also underlines the problem of intelligently covering other taboos or invisible subjects -- ranging from domestic violence to inner-city addiction -- particularly when they are veiled because journalists and readers would rather not see them...
...plans also call for modifying Sanders Theater to add a dressing room, rehearsal space, a storage room for instruments and a piano lift...