Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sixth-grader settles down to tackle her homework on a weekday afternoon in 2004. Instead of hunching over the kitchen table with a three-ring binder, she's sitting on the bus with her laptop. She logs on to the Internet to take a math-skills test on the school home page and get her own personalized assignment, downloads the software she'll need, seeks help from an online school librarian and e-mails the finished work to her teacher. Mom and Dad check in from their office computers, comparing her scores with the class and state averages...
Sure, some will slip through the cracks and be lured back for more mental punishment, but sooner or later, the grad school gig will become worse than this Doberman-eat-Doberman world. They'll be begging to be thrown into the ring, like those Christians to the lions...
...Ring farewell to the century of physics, the one in which we split the atom and turned silicon into computing power. It's time to ring in the century of biotechnology. Just as the discovery of the electron in 1897 was a seminal event for the 20th century, the seeds for the 21st century were spawned in 1953, when James Watson blurted out to Francis Crick how four nucleic acids could pair to form the self-copying code of a DNA molecule. Now we're just a few years away from one of the most important breakthroughs of all time...
...enforcement officials are investigating a new phone scam in which hackers electronically steal calling-card numbers from travelers. As he prepares to make a call, the victim hears a pay phone ring in an airport and answers it, only to find no one on the line. But when he then dials his own call, the crooks tap in and swipe his card number. A tip to the curious: pick up, then hang up for 20 seconds before dialing...
Harvard has labored through a difficult and trying non-conference season, but it now has a chance for redemption. The Crimson's pursuit of a fourth consecutive Ivy championship did not start in November; it begins tonight. And the only way Harvard knows how to ring in the Ivy season is with two victories...