Word: monitors
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...worked out a strategy to help her become a better mother so she could get her baby back. Under their plan, Oksana agreed to get off drugs, secure a safe place to live, make regular postnatal hospital visits and, most important, enlist the support of family and friends to monitor her progress and her treatment of Chloe. It could be called the it-takes-a-village approach to child welfare...
...giant panda; into the wild, marking the first time a member of this endangered species has been bred in captivity and freed; in a forest in Sichuan province, China, as bamboo shoots, the animal's favorite food, were starting to sprout. Officials at Wolong Giant Panda Research Center will monitor Xiang Xiang with a satellite tracking system...
...scholarly achievement as a viable alternative to the unfortunate stereotypes about black families.However, peripheral characters, such as Akeelah’s father, who is deceased, her brother, who is the protégé of an aspiring rapper, and her mother (Angela Bassett), who works too many jobs to monitor her children, evoke these film cliches.Akeelah aptly transcends her familial circumstances by preparing for the spelling bee with the assistance of the renowned, though reclusive, Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne) and the people living in her community. In fact, former bullies, neighborhood vagrants, and her once-neglectful family also help coach...
...winner and CEO of his own acoustic engineering firm LONO, Rapoport has earned his bragging rights. LONO, also run by Nicholas P. Orenstein ’05, David J. Jakus ’06, and James D. Moran ’05, is working on a wireless fetal heart monitor, a project which has put the team as the favored finalist in the Peltier Business Plan Competition in Texas. Even though inventing keeps him so busy, it’s become a way of life. When Rapoport could barely keep up with his packed schedule, he wrote a program connecting...
...from art-rock sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces, contained a delightful little Easter egg: the transcript of an email written by Matthew Friedberger, the band’s lyricist and instrumentalist, to their publicist. The email contains the most pretentious bit of prose ever committed to the page (or monitor). Since no summary of mine could capture the unmitigated pompousness of the offending passage, I quote it for you here: “The record is meant to sound like a not quite 12 year old lapsed piano student girl’s version of the Black Sabbath or Birthday...