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...Japanese word, of course, but it's been included in the Oxford English Dictionary since 1897. But since last month's tragedy, which left an estimated 160,000 dead, the term has taken on a whole new gravity?and manufacturers and advertisers have quickly adjusted. As Global Language Monitor's Paul Payack puts it, "The word tsunami will be the subject of considerable discretion before being used in anything other than a most serious manner." Here are some changes since the disaster...
...HUPD officer was sent to the biology laboratory on 16 Divinity Avenue on a report of a stolen $4,000 Apple Macintosh computer and monitor...
...according to Martin, HUDS works hard to monitor the flavor preferences and consumption patterns of each house...
Safety officials patrol the library, but no library employees monitor the space during extended hours, says David Futey, Stanford’s associate director of academic computing...
Other parents believe that legislation goes too far. "I think people are smart enough to know whether their children should play these games or not," says Chicago mom Michelle Nolan, 37, who keeps her family's PlayStation 2 system in her bedroom so she and her husband can monitor what their children play. And, needless to say, most youngsters consider regulation unnecessary. Alex Spicer, 16, of Orinda, Calif., says that he plays video games for five hours at a time on weekends and that he and his friends stop only for bathroom breaks. He's a huge fan of Halo...