Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...item about several presidents' announcements of military actions [NOTEBOOK, April 5], we mistakenly described some of the background accessories in Clinton's Oval Office as "campaign buttons." The array of small disks visible behind Clinton are not campaign buttons but special coins with the emblems and mottoes of various U.S. military units...
...those special minds that succeed with both the particular and the general, with individual and collaborative pursuits. His boyhood in San Francisco was spent roving vacant lots, searching for specimens. An only child, he began growing caterpillars into butterflies at the age of six. At eight he became a student member of the California Academy of Sciences. At 12 he joined the Sierra Club. At 15 he discovered a member of the heather family, a Presidio manzanita, which had not been seen for 50 years. This subspecies, Ravenii, was later named for him. He did his undergraduate work at Berkeley...
That forced Kearns to figure out how to make Newcomb Central a special place, a school no one would want to shutter. Realizing she was in the middle of "the biggest classroom in the whole world," she decided to give her curriculum an environmental focus, emphasizing Adirondack ecology and history "smack in our backyard." Walk into the school now, and an eerie silence echoes off the polished corridor floors. Classrooms are empty because many of the kids are off in the woods. The kindergarten class is at the town's little nature center down the road. Groups of students...
...SPECIAL DELIVERY While having a baby is thought to protect a woman against developing breast cancer, a new study suggests that if the child is born prematurely and the mother is over 40, her risk of breast cancer actually goes up 17%. The finding applies to first-time mothers only. What's behind it? Researchers think that the abrupt change in hormones that follows a premature delivery may be partly to blame...
JABBA THE HUTT Episodes I, IV (special edition), VI --Huge wormlike clan leader from a race of gangsters (the Hutts). Doggedly pursues Solo over a smuggling debt...