Word: parked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writing identifying numbers on an Iraqi woman's hand and an Iraqi man's neck. Those pictures not only symbolized an evil from times past but also underscored the direction this war has taken since the day when an Iraqi finger dipped in ink symbolized freedom. David Habecker, ESTES PARK, COLORADO...
...Currency Exchange that Linden Lab operates through PayPal. Such singular concern for profit does not make Second Life a good teaching tool, even though companies have claimed to use it as such. In an effort to teach young people how to manage money, Wells Fargo & Co. created an amusement park island on Second Life in 2005 where users could withdraw money from ATMs. Underlying this supposedly instructive intent, was, of course, Wells Fargo product placement. Overemphasis on profit and self-interest is indicative of larger problems in Second Life...
...marker across his forehead.I can divide the events of my life into those two distinct categories. I know that I won a math bee in fifth grade. I remember hitting the first and only home run of my Little League career against St. Joseph’s at Juniper Park in Middle Village, N.Y. in April of that same year. I remember how it felt to finally hit a ball on the sweet spot of the bat, how I watched, dumbfounded, as the ball soared, before the screams of “Run! Run!” from the dugout...
...Freshman International Program (FIP). Tackling the issues that immediately face students from a foreign country, FIP helps internationals obtain social security numbers, bank accounts, and cell phones, and also introduces them to the Cambridge and Boston area through a variety of trips, including one to Fenway Park for a Red Sox game.It can be an international student’s first introduction to American culture, and without the socially engaging, diverse FIP leadership staff, the process of adjustment would be vastly more difficult. “I was a FIP refugee,” Gong says.Despite being denied access...
...commuter gridlock caused by urban sprawl has turned downtown Toronto into a hot real estate market. Once affordable middle-class neighborhoods such as family-friendly High Park and artsy Annex are suddenly seeing homes sold for as much as $900,000, while new condos sprout almost weekly from former downtown parking lots, barely staying ahead of demand. Even Donald Trump has been drawn to the party: In the financial district, condos at Trump Toronto start at $1.6 million...