Word: person
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...started my class because the person who used to teach it got ill. People said to me, 'Why don't you teach the class? You like music.' So now I do," says Thelma Tyndall, who teaches a class called Music in our Lives. "Sometimes people ask me why I'm qualified to teach a class in music appreciation, and I just say, 'I like music and I like people. That makes me qualified...
...handicapped is an eye-tracking system built by Thomas Hutchinson, a University of Virginia engineer. Using a technology developed for jet-fighter pilots, Hutchinson's device measures the reflection of light from the retina to determine where on a computer display the eye is gazing. A person equipped with the eye tracker simply looks at a command on the screen and the computer executes it. "The last thing to go in the body is the eye muscle," says Hutchinson. "With this system we have an opportunity to free minds that are trapped inside bodies that do not work...
...shift from previous practice can be depicted in a line or two of dialogue as a person arrives at a party (`No thanks, I'm driving'), or as a couple discusses `Who's driving tonight?' or as several young people decide to share a taxi. Our hypothesis is that the impact will be gradual, incremental and ultimately far-reaching," he said...
...going to really have to love a person to go out and do that," Johnson said of the district's voters...
...that man has ever had. The youth of the world coming together to play -- it's a wonderful dream." He quadrennially skips the opening parade to save his legs from the speeches and his head from the pigeons, but partakes in all the casual camaraderie. "I'm a Village person. I like to go around and meet gymnasts and weight lifters, every kind of athlete. We share a special understanding. All sports are the same; it's just the rules that are different. Were ((the basketball star)) Michael Jordan and I to meet, I honestly think we could communicate without...