Search Details

Word: mesa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

High on a windswept mesa outside Albuquerque, inside an imposing complex of ochre-tinted buildings, a group of 14-year-olds ponder their future. "I choose mechanical engineering," says Jamael. "You can earn six digits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARTING FROM SCRATCH | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...Were Beautiful, about a widow recalling her one and only love, and put so much ache and age into it you could hear a collective heart breaking. Now, with the release of the CD Sunday Morning to Saturday Night, Reba and the rest better watch out. Matraca (rhymes with mesa) is moving up, from composer to competitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: UP COUNTRY: COMPOSER MATRACA BERG SCORES AS A SAVVY SINGER | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...most charismatic, star-studded teams in the American League couldn't last past the first round? And when we might have seen Randy Johnson duel David Cone in the opener last night, what have we done to deserve Chad Ogea versus Scott Erickson? Roberto Alomar and Jose Mesa? Peter Angelos...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Sadly, Yankees Go Home | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

...Africa. "Whole math," says molecular biologist Michael McKeown, "means less material covered in less depth with less rigor." Early last year, McKeown co-founded Mathematically Correct, a Website based in San Diego ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/ that has become the nerve center for the counterinsurgency. Here parents like Marianne Jennings of Mesa, Ariz., share dispatches from the front. Not long ago, Jennings watched her daughter Sarah, a straight-A algebra student, reach for a calculator to find 10% of 470. "It made my blood boil," says Jennings. In response, she and other parents pressured the school district to offer traditional math...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS IS MATH? | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...less constant, public parks have expanded their RV facilities to attract people who want the great outdoors without too much of the out-of-doors part. "People don't want to sleep on the ground as much as they used to," says Debbie Brunaforte, an RV dealer in Mesa, Ariz. "They don't want to spend an hour putting up a tent. You have a full kitchen and bathroom, and you don't have to pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RV HAVING FUN YET? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | Next