Word: odd
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...clock strikes the hour. As students pour from nearby classrooms, they pause to peer, wide-eyed, into the windows of room 109. They take advantage of this rare chance to snatch a glimpse of the notorious Math 55. Fascinated, their eyes explore the encoded chalkboard, entrancing them with its odd arrangement of foreign symbols, formulas, and proofs...
Under their constant gaze, a black-market slowly emerged of minors who traded money, foods, or maybe the odd sexual favor for precious beer. I have no doubt that had the tailgate continued through the fourth quarter, a currency of cigarettes would have evolved...
...agree with him. As desegregation orders are lifted across the country and school districts struggle to remain integrated, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed to a potential paradox of the Jefferson County suit. "What's constitutionally required one day gets constitutionally prohibited the next day?" she pondered. "That's very odd." But the newest members of the Court, Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed skeptical of such open-ended social engineering. And Justice Anthony Kennedy, who could be the swing vote in this case, worried about the Supreme Court letting a school district that is no longer under...
...seem odd to call RU 486--the prescription-only abortion pill--pro-life, but it may be just that when it comes to cancer. Researchers at the University of California at Irvine reported last week that mifepristone, the active chemical in RU 486, can help thwart the growth of mammary tumors in mice caused by the mutant gene BRCA-1. More than half of women with this gene will develop breast or ovarian cancer...
While Zambrano hopes his essays will make up for what his scores lack, Wang is concerned about her personal statements, done at odd hours in the week before the deadline. “I’m nervous right now. I actually don’t really think I’ll get in,” Wang says. “I don’t know, I guess have a chance, but I was reading over my essays and modifying them for other schools. And they weren’t the best that it could have been...