Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother was not as stoic. She cried hysterically as a hardened representative of the Humana Hospital--Greenbrier Valley in Fairlea, West Virginia loudly demanded assurance that she could pay for her son's treatment...
...Deaf from birth, Marc Hagen, 17, had just about given up on school when his mother brought home an Apple IIe with a modem and showed him how to dial into the 200 or so computer bulletin boards in the Minneapolis area. "It just turned Marc around," reports Dolores Hagen. "Now he can talk to Bangkok if he wants, and if you saw my phone bill, you'd think...
According to Marius, much of the plagiarism at Harvard is inadvertent, resulting from sloppy notetaking, instances when "your mother typed the paper and left out all the quotation marks" or other examples of poor writing. He said that when taking notes, students "should make a clear distinction between your thoughts about the source and the words of the source itself," adding that students should mark all paraphrases by author and title...
...square name is Francis Morgan Thompson. "Daley" is a corruption of Ayodele, an African endearment bestowed by his Nigerian father and mispronounced by his Scottish mother. It means "joy enters the house." "That was the only thing," in Thompson's bittersweet estimation, "that they got absolutely right." His London childhood was something out of Thackeray, not Dickens, though classic shadows like boarding schools were involved. "Since forever, I always thought I was going to be the best in the world at something. My school friends used to laugh at me, but I kept searching for the thing that would express...
...begins hauling herself up and down Lane 1 again, this time using hand paddles to build arm strength, with a small inner tube around her ankles, immobilizing her legs and increasing drag. At 8:30 a.m. she will hoist herself out of the pool, wave to her mother Barbara, towel off and ride with Barbara back to their home in Placentia, half an hour away. (Her father Paul, a veterinarian, does the 5 a.m. run to the Fullerton pool.) Later, after an hour in the weight room, she will return to the pool and chug through more distance sets until...