Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culture clash extends to academic issues because professionals moving to town want a college-prep curriculum that the system has been slow to provide. Wilmington's system ranks in the bottom quarter of Ohio school districts, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer study, and sends less than half its graduates to college. Rick and Leslie Chamberlain moved to town thinking the schools would be adequate; they no longer think so. Their oldest child, Jeremy, was an apathetic student who fell in with underachievers at the high school. But because Jeremy wasn't a troublemaker, says Rick, the guidance counselors never...
...only did Pathfinder land on a Martian plain that may have been sculpted by water, but the plucky little Sojourner rover kept bumping into rocks that are extremely similar to those found under lake beds back on Earth. "Mars was certainly once a very wet place," says TIME Science Writer Jeffrey Kluger, "before the loss of its atmosphere. And yes, life did have time to develop...
According to Superintendent Harold Murphy of the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), "Cops in Shops"--a program designed to reduce underage drinking--places plain-clothes police officers in and around liquor stores to guard against illegal purchases of alcohol...
Stock markets everywhere are falling. In Hong Kong, then in New York City, brokers are selling desperately. Deep in the desert night of Saudi Arabia, a reclusive investor, attired in a plain white robe and the red-checked headdress of a Bedouin, is buying. Brother, is he buying...
There are some comments that deserve to be overlooked--they are just plain mean. Nicholas K. Davis '99, who is a Crimson editor, recalls his Expos preceptor commenting: "I don't think we're reading the same stories...Let's see if we're sharing some of the same reality." Also on an Expos paper, Sarah A. Knight '00 discovered that her grader "liked this paper in spite of itself." "That's a terrible thing to say," Knight says. "It's not constructive criticism...