Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...salary as attractive benefits to the profession. These are valid assertions, and many teachers enter the field for such selfish reasons. But I like to believe that the majority of the mentors in our public schools are there for the opportunity to help children understand their surroundings, past and present, in order to acquire knowledge and cognitive skills for use in future situations. The teacher, when confronted with the challenge of entering the classroom, embraces the daunting task instead of giggling nervously...
...opportunity I have taken advantage of, I most definitely have had my confrontations with racism. What about the father of my classmate and friend in the second grade? I was not allowed into Dorothy's house when her father was present because, as he, a police officer, told me, "Black people are the source of all my problems." And what of the father of a former boyfriend? In the two years we were together, I was not once introduced to Andrew's father, who told his son that, while black women may be good for some things, having a real...
...year's worth of attention from the world press, since scientists have been able to "clone" animals from fetal cells for about two decades now. As Ian Wilmut of Scotland's Roslin Institute sheepishly admitted to a genetics forum at the University of Louisville, fetal cells might have been present in the circulatory sytem of Dolly's clone mother during the time he took his now-famous 277 genetic samples. "We and everybody else had completely overlooked it," he said, tacitly admitting that a couple of naysayers writing in Science magazine last month may have a point...
...truth: As far as we, his family know, at the present time there is no cancer anywhere in Frank's body, and he is not in need of surgery of any kind. It's still difficult to understand why the media continue to pass along erroneous stories that frighten people...
...learn how the king of the swingers is doing these days, right from the horse's (or horse's head's) mouth. You can also enter monthly contests, order daughter Nancy's new album and read other terse responses to reports about Sinatra's condition, past and present. Any questions? You can't e-mail him, but you can sign the guestbook. The family promises to read it to him. Really...