Word: peeking
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...stop here in the lower school. Light is spilling into the halls, filtered by rainbow watercolor panels. This is the third grade; you can peek into the window. It’s early morning, so the children are standing up, clapping and singing in tinny, wavering voices. In the next hallway, the fourth graders are still saying the morning verse, the ambiguously religious poem that begins the school day. I said it every day for years. “I look into the world,” they intone. “In which the sun is shining / In which...
...Unlike Ellis’ works, which are far more visually disciplined, Baron’s paintings writhe before the viewer in red, black and the occasional touch of gray. In his two untitled works of 2001, Baron occasionally allows a vivid spurt of green or blue to peek through from beneath the painted surface...
...frustration, hyperactivity, depression and lack of motivation. Even worse, parents and teachers think a simple eye-chart test is comprehensive. It isn't. It measures distance vision but not near vision, focusing or how well the eyes work together. --By David Bjerklie Sources: Wall Street Journal; Archives of Neurology; PEEK! Parent-Teacher Eye-Q Test
...instant fame, near instant sex and a little money on the side is civilization as we know it--and it's thriving. Dating series have become to the 21st century what sleazy talk and courtroom shows were to the late '90s: a ubiquitous TV staple that offers a sneak peek at the national id--and the occasional blurred-out bare chest. Following Blind Date, the granddaddy--or sleazy uncle--of the genre, syndicated TV is filled with the likes of Change of Heart, Elimidate, The 5th Wheel, Rendez-View, Shipmates and EX-treme Dating; cable offers tlc's A Dating...
...growing steadily across Europe. NetValue, a market research firm, says the number of unique visitors to Internet bank sites in eight large European markets jumped 15% between October 2001 and May 2002, to nearly 22.5 million. Each visit might represent a deposit, an electronic payment or just a peek at an account balance. In Continental Europe, online banking is dominated by traditional banks. But in the U.K., even though "High Street" banks have more online customers overall, four pure-play Net banks - Egg, Smile, Intelligent Finance and Cahoot - have made impressive inroads. Egg has 2.1 million customers, for instance, compared...