Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken me a long time to read this book. It's 450 pages and I'm now on about 370. It came in small bites here and there at the beginning, but as I've gotten closer to the end, I've been taking it in bigger chunks. It will be so satisfying when I finish in the next week--a taste of former glory...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) responded to a University Park Hotel report of a "woman down." When the officer arrived, they found a Brookline resident lying down, in possession of two hypodermic syringes, a spoon and a small quantity of heroin...
...implications are almost unimaginable - cheap, ubiquitous supercomputing, unlimited memory capacity, medical nano-devices small enough to float in the human bloodstream, and beyond - but it will be years before actual functioning molecular computers will be constructed. "This is an important stepping stone, but we still have a long way to go, " James Tour, an expert in the field who teaches at Rice University, told the New York Times. "I don't want people to think that in three to five years we'll have molecular electronics...
While suburban and small-town parents often worry about their kids being overscheduled with sports and not having enough free time, many inner-city families say they would love to have such problems. When kids pour out of school each day in scores of lower-income urban communities, all that awaits them is the street--no soccer, baseball or ice skating. They just hang out, while their parents pray that dead-end afternoons won't lead to sex or drugs or violence. "Most teenage pregnancies happen between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," says Les Franklin, founder of the Shaka...
...generosity of friendship, the cruelty of courtship. As Riviere says, "I want all men to love me, especially those I don't love." But she, Romand and young ravisher Alexia Portal give viewers plenty to love. Modestly profound, Autumn Tale has the savor of a great wine from a small vineyard...