Word: someness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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6 Legs shouldn't dangle. They need to be at right angles with the feet, which are planted firmly on the floor. If necessary, a box or some other flat object can be used.
Paul Cornell, an ergonomist with Steelcase, Inc., transformed the unfinished basement in their Grand Rapids, Mich., home into an attractive computer workspace to keep his three children--Emily, 15; Katie, 13; and Max, 10--out of harm's way, at least at home. Here are some of the essential guidelines...
Nefra Faltas, 20, a human-biology and philosophy major, could have gone to the University of Virginia as an in-state student three years ago but chose to attend the University of Toronto instead. "It was time," she decided, "to be exposed to something completely different." Rachel Polner, 21, a...
Ireland, of course, has its own special chemistry. Domenica Alioto, 18, chose Trinity College Dublin because "none of the American schools I applied to really excited me the way Trinity did." The excitement is apparently catching: the number of all American students in Ireland, where there are only nine universities...
Romantic and historic though they may be, these international institutions don't coddle their students the way some American colleges do. Canadian universities come closest to the American concept of in loco parentis, offering numerous welcoming services to foreign students. Still, their staffs are less nurturing than those in the...