Word: lock
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...safer place than ever--the number of school-associated violent deaths dropped 40% from 1997 through 1999--but it feels scarier with each new well-publicized shooting and threat. In the year since the Columbine massacre, understandably nervous school officials have cycled through a series of responses, from lock-down drills to see-through knapsacks, with the impulsiveness of seventh-graders buying the boy-band CD of the moment...
...Janowicz got his first with only 1:39 left to lock the score, and struck two minutes later to seal the game...
What we are doing is, quite frankly, stupid. In the U.S., in the year 2000, when we decide that an individual has committed a crime we lock him inside a room, a compound of buildings for some length of time. Though men used to comprise the vast majority of the prison population, women are now the fastest growing group of prisoners.) He will have minimal contact with members of his family and his community. His living environment will be chaotic, overcrowded, noisy, brutal. Typically, he will not be educated--though more than half of all prisoners are functionally illiterate, only...
...killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera a few feet from JonBenet's resting place. For three days, they mounted round-the-clock surveillance from the window of a nearby high school, hoping to overhear a graveside confession from one of the many mourners...
...Navy warship, it was unfortunate that no mention was made of how Commander Kathleen McGrath developed the self-esteem, confidence and leadership skills to be selected for the position in the male-dominated military. It would have been more enlightening than the subject of toilet modifications. PATRICIA KUBUS LOCK Nicholson...