Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exaggerating here, these Los Angelinos are not your run-of-the-mill Californians. Being from San Francisco I thought I had seen all the weirdness the West Coast had to offer, but let me tell you, the SF dragfest has nothing on the women I saw strolling along Rodeo and Wilshire...
...that wasn't enough, I saw something that really chilled my bones: two guys in their twenties working an intersection on Beverly. The signs around their necks read, "English Majors, will read poetry for food." No doubt actors out of work, they were a grim reminder that the rising economic tide has not lifted all boats, and that no college-degree holder should be over-confident about post-graduate successes. Not everyone, after all, makes it in Hollywood...
...showed my mammograms to four other radiologists. Excessive, maybe. But one was equivocal, and the other three said they would never have suggested a biopsy. That was reassuring but confusing. The fact remained that a skilled radiologist had raised the specter of breast cancer, and while other doctors saw things differently, I was stuck. No one could undo her written report, not in this litigious age. Meanwhile, the idea that I might have cancer had taken root. I knew that if I didn't have the tissue analyzed by a pathologist, I'd never stop worrying...
...immigrated a few years ago from Mexico. No English was spoken in his troubled and poor home, and his limited language skills made for low grades. But last fall, six student tutors from the U.C. Irvine English program came to his fourth-grade classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only subtle changes at first. But two months later, when the kids wrote their final poems of the term, Raynaldo's reading had jumped from first- to third-grade level. And his poem had the glow of a prayer: "...the beauty of the hand of God/never let go of my mother...
Still, some members of the union said they are not pleased with the contract, but accepted it because they saw it as the University's final offer. The contract was agreed upon with the University on June 23 after two days of intense final discussion...