Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Databases filled with gobs of juicy, personal information have been around since computers were invented, of course. But what was once the exclusive domain of skip tracers, private eyes and investigative reporters is now available to anyone with access to the Net. Today you too can be a gumshoe. Or a stalker. Or, if you're willing to work with borrowed credit cards, a thief...
...Natal Drakensberg in South Africa and more than 4,000 in the Tsodilo Hills in northern Botswana. Indeed, the rock art is so plentiful that despite the hundreds of rolls of film donated by the Getty Institute, Coulson can afford to shoot only the best examples. "We skip over images that are either inferior or too recent," he says...
Princeton offers a similar credit system for missed meals. Whenever students skip breakfast, lunch or dinner, they receive compensation of $2.50, $3.50 or $4.50, respectively...
...watching or listening to the misery that makes the world go round? It gets worse each week, building to a seven-day fast in Week Eight. He couldn't mean sports news too, could he? Not when it's basketball-playoff time. Can I watch the games and just skip the halftime blather...
...could contact all donors who have given money to Harvard in the last 10 years and ask that they donate money specifically for ethnic studies, or put an advertisement in Harvard Magazine, which is distributed to all alumni. Perhaps students could get one of their Faculty supporters, such as Skip Gates, to write an article in the magazine or a letter to alumni asking them to donate money to establish a professorship in ethnic studies...