Word: showings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is an excellent education lurking here for the child with an inner flashlight. The best teachers arrive early and leave late and wrestle to make everything they teach mean something, and they all show up at the football game at the end of the week, their own kids in tow, cheering their students on and mixing and meddling with their lives in the bleachers. Walk down the halls, stop and listen in, and you can hear those moments of collision and discovery. "Some of you were complaining that the questions I was asking about The Scarlet Letter were making...
...details of such failures could probably lead to powerful treatments. Indeed, Blobel's research has already helped scientists use tiny cellular "factories" to mass-produce proteins such as erythropoietin, which stimulates red-blood-cell production. A deeper understanding of cellular machinery, which Blobel continues to pursue, could eventually show how cells are damaged in Alzheimer's disease, cancer and infections...
...When the show aired in February 1966, the community recoiled at its nationally televised image. The qualities residents cherished most had been turned against them: safety and security became insularity and complacency, their sense of propriety came off as snobbery, their prosperity as materialism. People were livid, and some still are. Chicago correspondent Stacy Perman tracked down several who were there during the filming. Most recall the program as "a hatchet job" but concede that it had its points. "Looking back," says Doug Wheeler, class of '67 and now an emergency-room doctor in Jefferson City, Mo., "there was more...
...school and try to figure out what pressures it faces, what is working, what isn't and what has really changed since last spring, when we all discovered how complicated high schools can be." Allowed to peel back the layers of Webster Groves, TIME's team was able to show how remarkable high school really...
...season (4,029); had 50 or more points in a game 118 times; set the record for career rebounds (23,924), rebounds per game (22.9), average points in one season (50.4). Other numbers recalled last week: seven straight scoring titles and 11 rebound titles (in 14 seasons). To show how complete a player he was, his most remarkable stat may be that in 1968, he led the league in assists...