Word: schoolwork
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...KEILLAN LECKY DREADED kindergarten. So many of the words her playmates gleefully shouted or conspiratorially whispered seemed to hover just out of reach, as elusive as a vanishing rainbow. Her difficulty understanding them was starting to affect her schoolwork. Then, last summer, Keillan, along with 21 other language-impaired children, was enrolled in an experimental program at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in which the kids improved their auditory skills by playing computer games. The change in Keillan and the others was so remarkable, says Paula Tallal, co-director of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers...
Tilahun and Tadesse worked closely on schoolwork, McMillin said, but "their personalities were quite different. Neb is more gregarious and social and humorous...
Last season, it was a 5-4 loss at Ohiri Field that gave a sour note to a week without schoolwork. This time around, it was the same story, only more...
...modern, well-wired home already offers its occupants a head-spinning array of computer-borne activities. Children use CD-ROMS to play games and hear music. Teenagers flock to online services not only to ``chat'' but also to reach primary schoolwork sources, such as images of original works of art, documents prepared by experts, even possible exchanges of E-mail with the experts themselves. Adults have access to instant stock-market quotes, to online versions of magazines, from Ad Week to Women's Wear Daily, and to a host of ``clubs,'' where people gather to discuss astronomy, genealogy or bicycling...
...pass off his studies in favor of football--something that will not help him at all in later life. I'm not trying to tell this hypothetical athlete what he should or shouldn't be doing; my point is that being a scholarship implies obligations that conflict with schoolwork...