Word: poole
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black, was principal of the segregated Boykin Street Elementary School in Auburn, Ala., during the George Wallace era. When he could not integrate the student body, he integrated the staff instead and began teaching French to fourth-graders. When his sons wanted to swim in the all-white community pool, he told them to do it. And when young Keith showed an early fondness for dissection, he brought home a cow's heart from the local slaughterhouse. "He was the ultimate educator," Black recalls. "He instilled in us an attitude that there is nothing that you cannot...
...members of this year's council were elected from a record high pool of 155 candidates, a dramatic rise from last year's 114 contenders...
...prevent people from drilling into her room and poisoning her, Mission: Impossible-style (no), and that she has a computer chip implanted in her neck to track her. (And this where 50% of students had a 4.0 in high school.) There was endless speculation, and at least one betting pool, about where she would live. But the thing that obsessed Stanford most was the Secret Service men, who, as they did for Jack Ford, will dress like students and live in the dorm. Will they listen in while Chelsea hooks up? If they go to class with her, will they...
...idea: pool investors' money into bids that win a 5%-to-10% share of some of these deals. The site witcapital.com already has the specs on Wit's first IPO, an Israeli networking-software firm called Radcom Ltd. Now, whether Radcom will make you a quick killing or make you the quick killing is unknown. The big news is that you and I can read Radcom's prospectus and purchase its stock as early as the chairman of Goldman Sachs...
...intelligence" is actually a bundle of different mental capabilities that people have in varying amounts, and that these capabilities can be strongly affected by environmental factors--leaves room for a large genetic component. Few Ashkenazi Jews, I suspect, would trade their genes for a random draw from the gene pool, whatever their fear of colon cancer and whatever they may have felt (and said) about Charles Murray, notorious co-author of The Bell Curve...