Word: prods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear several school-choice cases, legal experts suspect the more clear-cut Cleveland case might prod it into action. In the meantime, Judge Oliver is allowing Derrick Milancuk and nearly 4,000 other students in the Cleveland voucher program to remain in their schools while his ruling is on appeal...
...that they are from Northeastern University. They're headed to an Angry Salad concert at the Middle East. "What is Angry Salad?" a bystander asks. "Think Counting Crows meets Goo Goo Dolls," one replies. They turn their attention to a man wearing black tie and carrying grocery bags. They prod him, poke him and question him. I change lanes suddenly and the girls fall onto an entertwined high school couple...
...beloved kindergarten teacher for 20 years at Wyngate Elementary School in Bethesda, Md., says she regrets that her class seems so hurried, "but there just isn't enough time to cover everything we need to cover." Her local school district has instigated a "reading initiative" as a way to prod the kindergartners to read by the end of the year, and Wampler is feeling the heat. "Some kids begin to click with reading," she says, "but it's not happening with every...
...insights: that cancer is caused not by depression or miasmas or sexual repression, as people at various times have believed, but by faulty genes. Every tumor begins with just one errant cell that has been unlucky enough to suffer at least two, but sometimes several, genetic mutations. Those mutations prod the cell into replicating wildly, allowing it to escape the control that genes normally maintain over the growth of new tissue...
That's because a tumor is made up of a hodgepodge of cells containing different genetic mutations, each of which allows it to wreak a different brand of havoc. Some mutations spur rapid growth; others prod nearby blood vessels into sprouting new capillaries; still others send cancer cells out into the bloodstream, where they can seed new tumors. Within 10 years, predicts Robert Weinberg, a cancer biologist at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., "we will analyze the mutant genes and then tailor-make a treatment [for] that particular tumor...