Word: skips
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...just $1,000 a year. Setting a much needed national example, the decidedly working-class district upped the PE requirement for high schoolers to a daily 42 minutes starting next year. The CDC's Wechsler advises school boards to re-evaluate their priorities. "You might argue that you can skip algebra and do O.K.," he says. "But learning about how to stay healthy could save your life...
...M.I.T., Ray Kurzweil acquired the nickname the Phantom because he tended to skip class to work on his inventions. His disappearing act paid off. Earlier this year President Clinton presented the native New Yorker, 52, with the National Medal of Technology--a sort of cyber-Nobel Prize. Kurzweil's eclectic career and propensity for combining science with practical--often humanitarian--applications have inspired comparisons with Thomas Edison...
Take a look at what your eyes are doing right now. It's known as saccadic jumping--the way they skip across the page from left to right before some unseen hand comes in and pushes them to the start of the next line, like the ball on an old typewriter. It's something you've done your whole life. But is it really the most efficient way to read...
...sense. If you can't find a pair of drugstore glasses that work for your eyes, you probably need to give up and pay for a prescription pair. Even if you find a pair of glasses that you can read with, don't use that as an excuse to skip regular eye exams. There are other conditions--such as glaucoma--for which you should be checked. Consider the money you save on drugstore glasses as partial payment for your next trip to the eye doctor...
...computer, only it's hooked up to your TV. It's like a VCR, only digital. It automatically records whatever you're watching, all the time, so you can rewind, pause, slo-mo or instant-replay live TV. If you're watching something you've already recorded, you can skip ahead through the commercials. Best of all, the DVR has a built-in channel guide, so you can tell it to record a show, and it will do so without having to be told the when, where and how. That alone is proof to me that God loves couch potatoes...