Word: lowing
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Gould received the ball, took a couple of touches and rocketed a low ball at the net. Sophomore goalie Mike Meagher got a good read and dove to his left, his hands stretched out in front of the ball...
Reznor finally clambered out with the aid of a therapist. "[Therapy] helped me in the sense that it provided an explanation. They said, 'You're not up and down, you're just a quart low.' Not bad." The awareness of his mild depression left him, he says, "not repaired but enlightened. I'm aware of my fragility now, which is a better thing. I'm not afraid to admit...
...Natalie Low, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and instructor at Harvard, counsels families as they navigate their way through the illusions and into the reality of marriage. She says the couples she sees are trying to nurture their relationships along with raising perfect kids and maintaining careers, but in this compartmentalized era, they are without the benefit of support systems of extended families and communities. Couples also expect to be happy. But "the facts of life are very grinding, so the reality of marriage is grinding," says Low, who has been married for 51 years. Marriage...
DIED. BENJAMIN BLOOM, 86, education pioneer whose findings showed the relationship between early experience and learning, and focused attention on development and home environment; in Chicago. Bloom helped spur Head Start, the program for low-income students established in 1965 by President Johnson...
...high-tech industry that's making people rich and fueling America's great economic surge is often criticized for the low numbers of minorities in its booming work force. All told, African Americans constitute only 7.2% of the nation's computer scientists; Hispanics, only 3.6%. Part of the reason, as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates can tell you, is that there are too few minorities with the education to fill those jobs. Gates and his wife Melinda addressed that problem last week, when they announced that their foundation will make the largest academic donation ever: $1 billion, which will be distributed...