Word: ponderousness
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...impossible to keep from being full. The meal plan ensures—or, more accurately, mandates—that we always have food on our plates. Like twelve-year-olds at summer camp, we may not relish what the dining hall is serving up, but we never have to ponder when—or how—we’ll get our next meal...
...what? Race could be out as a factor in assigning students to public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, leaving educators to ponder less reliable alternatives for creating racially diverse classrooms. School districts can still place students according to family income, academic achievement or even neighborhood poverty rates-all assumed to bear at least some correlation with race. But where that's been tried, it has rarely resulted in integrated schools. And to the extent these alternatives are meant as proxies for race, they could still be vulnerable to constitutional attack...
...most stunning returns in tennis history, Williams--dismissed as too injury prone and disinterested since she and her sister Venus dominated the game earlier in the decade and written off as plain washed up after losing to ... Bammer-- can now ponder the preposterous. A Grand Slam. Williams took the Australian title, crushing the sport's hottest star, Russian-born, American-bred Maria Sharapova, in the final, 6-1, 6-2. She followed that up with another impressive hard-court title at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, again dismantling Sharapova, 1 and 1, en route to beating the world...
...those people who believe the European Union is anything but beneficial? Do they know that citizens of less developed countries seek a sense of security that Europeans take for granted? Having been born in Zambia, I know. I am disgusted by the fact that your readers can so easily ponder tossing aside the E.U. just because they sit every Saturday morning in their comfortable armchairs and read Time without having to worry about anything. Jack Robert Rose, SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND...
CORRECTION: The April 20 news article "Police Ponder Safety Concerns" incorrectly implied that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) would lead training sessions for the University's mental health staff in response to the Virginia Tech shootings. In fact, HUPD will only be a participant in the joint training sessions, and the meetings were previously planned...