Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more trusting and vulnerable. ``Even though I'm the most private person you ever want to meet, I let my guard down right away,'' he says of their online courtship. In 1993, two years after meeting, the couple married. The problems of cementing relationships in cyberspace pale beside the challenges of forging whole enclaves. In fact, among the cyberintelligentsia, debate rages as to whether the concept of ``community'' even exists in cyberspace. Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community, says, ``I want to dispel the notion that a computer network is by itself a community -- a place where at least...
...awful as these situations are, they pale in comparison to the dilemma faced by the true student-athletes. Even at powerhouses like Penn State, some members of the football team know that they will not make it to the NFL. Nevertheless, they are part of the program and subsequently must do everything they can to create victories...
...business? Nobody eats that. Plus, I've never seen a Soho soda before I came here." Kidd's confusion is understandable, as Soho sodas come from New York City, making them an odd choice for a meal commemorating the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Kidd's opinions pale in comparison, though, to that of a more vicious Southern student who requested anonymity: "We definitely don't wear the clothes [the dining service workers] wore...
...clams overboiled in sandy water, saw the rickety ghettos along Route 6 and came upon miles of coarse, deserted dunes with harsh twilight sandstorms. It was not my idealization of the Cape. It should have been a place of carefree beauty, of deck shoes and seagulls, of dinghies and pale yellow beach houses...
During his undergraduate years at Columbia, Elkies focused more on research. Wait a minute--Columbia? What made this math whiz choose New York's pale imitation of Harvard? "Poor judgment?" says Elkies, by way of explanation. "I was glad I was able to finish in only three years...