Word: mined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great admirer of Tobias Wolff, who was actually a teacher of mine. He writes so well about the pain of growing up. But where he writes about characters under extreme pressure, I tend to write about characters who are overtly normal...
...computer science student of mine, but Ihad no idea he sang," Lewis said of Weinstein...
...that ice ball last winter, for instance, Harris told his father that he thought he was throwing a harmless snowball. His dad believed him, but Judy Brown didn't. "You can pull the wool over your father's eyes," she told Eric, "but you can't pull it over mine." He pretended to be offended. "You calling me a liar?" he demanded. "Yes, I suppose I am," she said. Harris stomped away...
...playing with blockbuster material. Known as "legacy codes," the 100 or so calculations that he put on his hard drive contained a gold mine of nuclear secrets--reams of physics equations and weapon-test results and warhead designs--painstakingly amassed by the U.S. since the government began building atom bombs at Los Alamos a half-century ago. When Energy Department officials discovered in March that a mid-level scientist had copied programs from the prized database, they were chagrined. That the scientist was the Taiwanese-born Lee, the same one fired on March 8 amid fears that he might already...
...endeavors for a while. We have time between neglecting our children and watching our soap operas to make art. (I pray that people realize that I've been facetious for the past couple of sentences and I'm about to switch back to truth starting now). A friend of mine recently said that art leads the majority, but follows the margins. The boys messed around and got caught; hip hop is now mainstream. Guess whose turn...