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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artillery are getting closer to hitting U.S. warplanes, which fly at more than 20,000 ft. to avoid Iraqi fire. "They're making adjustments that allow them to cover more altitude," he says. The Iraqis fire usually with no electronic guidance, which would sound an alarm in U.S. cockpits. Often the only alert pilots have is the silent pop of charcoal-gray puffs of smoke from exploding artillery hundreds or thousands of feet below. U.S. pilots say they attack only after Iraqi forces threaten them...
...comprehensive learning in small groups, experts say the results can be excellent (even when the kids eat the lesson). But for schools with fewer resources, teachers have to do much more instructing from the front of the class and employ methods they describe as "drill and kill"--because they often kill the kids' enthusiasm...
...star high school basketball player like Scott Hazelton, making it to the pros is the ultimate, often unattainable dream. But the 6-ft. 8-in. teenager from Lawrence, Mass., has at least one person who believes in him: Aran Smith, an Internet entrepreneur who registered the domain name scotthazelton.com without Hazelton's permission. Smith has spent some $15,000 staking a claim to more than 200 Internet addresses, mostly the names of promising high school athletes. If any of them make it big, Smith will own some valuable cyber real estate...
...self-described virgins admitted having oral sex--some in their early teens. Peter Sheras, professor of adolescent development at the University of Virginia, says many teens have become desensitized. Oral sex "might mean what a French kiss meant to us when we were kids," he says. Teens often shrug and say that oral sex never made anyone pregnant. Parents need to remind them, though, that it can transmit dread diseases, including HIV and the papilloma virus, against which even condoms offer little protection...
...slowed for a product. If the item is tech, that's nasty. It means you will probably have to take the hit--unless you can wait for a new product cycle. If one is just around the corner, I use the break to buy more, as I have often done with Intel. If the next product looks hopelessly stalled or way out in the future, I take a pass...