Word: skips
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...year-old Jordanian undergrad has friends who live in Baghdad, and has heard plenty of horror stories about the Iraqi dictator's repressive regime. He recounts some of them for my benefit as we wait in a queue at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Amman. (I'll skip the gory details: suffice it to say that they put me off dinner.) But recently, Nabil's been reassessing Saddam, seeing him in a new light. "You have to admire the fact that, unlike the West, he has consistently stuck to his principles," he says, checking his hair on a shiny wall...
Some students cite a decline of the dot-com mentality that tempted graduates to skip graduate school...
...need the test, nor do women over 70 who have had three or more normal Pap tests and no abnormal results in 10 years. At least 93% of cervical cancers are caused by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus; young women who have never had sexual intercourse can skip the screening. The ACS advises, however, that all women get tested three years after starting to have sex or no later than age 21. For the full guidelines, visit www.cancer.org --By Sora Song
Matt Espy has much more free time than you do, so he travels the world. Airline e-mails keep him informed of discounted tickets, so he’ll skip class on Friday to hop a flight, returning sometime Monday. The man has serious frequent flier miles...
Often the checkers simply glance at one compartment of a backpack or skip the check altogether. For all the double-checking, it would be easy enough to hide a book in other compartments or jacket pockets. Furthermore, anything short of patting down library patrons as they exit will do little to catch thieves who have torn out pages...