Word: specializing
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...some universities' special Match Day traditions: "On the third Thursday in March, medical schools across the country held gatherings to unveil the computer's results. Some schools waited for the designated hour, then unleashed the students to retrieve the envelopes with their results and braced for a stampede. Others, including Vanderbilt University, called students at random to the front of a lecture hall. On the way, each students dropped a dollar bill into a fishbowl as compensation for the suffering that the last person was to endure while waiting. One by one, they received and opened their envelopes, leaned into...
...district provides funding to make sure kids don't get left out of sports, field trips, school dances or special projects like the science fair. And when two homeless students at Cityview Performing Arts Magnet won a regional science fair, teacher Pamela Holland-Mills did their laundry so they would have clean clothes for the celebratory dinner...
...TIME's special report on paying for college...
...been doing it ever since, not with opinion and conjecture but with reporting on the ground and a concern for how all this is affecting real people's lives. We did that last week with "So You Think You're Insured?" and the week before that with our special economic package "Holding On for Dear Life." And we've been defining this economic crisis since our signature cover story "How Wall Street Sold Out America" the week Lehman Brothers went under. We captured the mood of the nation with our "The New Hard Times" cover in October, not to mention...
...terrible spectacle is all too familiar: Heavily armored police officers and Special Forces operatives blocking access to an otherwise deserted school building; crying students, their faces filled with horror and panic, running to shell-shocked parents; ambulances and patrol cars waiting as helicopters observe the chaos from above...