Word: preps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embryonic International Space Station by two hours. "You can't be telling me we're almost done," Barry said before ducking back inside the space shuttle Discovery at the end of the eight-hour free-float. "Wow. It feels like we just walked outside." The mission was mostly a prep for the crews to come: setting up space scaffolding, attaching cranes and hanging bags of tools on the exterior of the seven-story station...
...present, with six players on last year's roster drafted into the NHL, including two second-round picks, sophomore forwards Steve Moore and Chris Bala. One of next year's expected recruits, Brett Nowak, was rated by Central Scouting Bureau as the top player in the New England Prep Schools...
...that she didn't give it some serious thought. Mawn researched the best financial-real-estate programs, sent away for applications and took a prep course for the Graduate Management Admissions Test. But after seeking advice from senior woman executives in her company, including some with M.B.A.s, she decided to forgo the degree...
...make, locations to scout, timing to perfect. In the fall of 1998, Klebold and Harris made a video for a class project--a video in which they dress in trench coats, carry guns and blow away jocks, a murderous fantasy stoking a murderous reality. For Klebold, the planning and prep may have taken on an abstract quality: something he and Harris talked about only to each other, something that fueled their relationship, something they would plan forever but that would never actually happen. Until it did happen...
Students themselves are an incredibly varied lot. This is not your father's Harvard--while prep school alums are common, they no longer exclusively run the show. Harvard undergrads come from every state and increasingly from abroad--the international student population is sizeable and growing...