Word: spurred
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...Junior Mike Madden--who is also a defensive back on the football team--is the incumbent closer, one of the reach-back-and-gun variety. But Madden has battled an elbow spur...
...flat tire. At that point Byrd was still alive and conscious. His tormentors then dragged him 2 1/2 more miles to his death. The jury also heard the tale of a young man sent to prison for burglary who emerged as a heavily tattooed member of a Klan spur group. One witness said King plotted to kill a black man when he returned to Jasper as part of a "blood-tie" initiation into the Klan chapter he planned to form. Photos showed tattoos covering much of King's upper body, including the image of a black man hanging from...
...request reflects a more European approach to dealing with terrorism. "France, for example, places a much higher premium on intelligence and threat avoidance," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Sometimes they prefer to press the terrorists' host country to police their activities rather than get them extradited, which can spur further terrorist attacks." Washington, however, remains determined to see Bin Laden in an orange jumpsuit...
...flaws, so obvious to us now, in the eugenicists' thinking--starting but by no means ending with their assumption of the immutable heritability of character and the attribution of complex human traits to simple Mendelian genes--did spur, among scientists who recognized the errors, valuable research in the actual science of human genetics. They were wrong, with unintended consequences for millions of people. But the legacy of the eugenicists may be instructive. The next time you hear someone promoting the scientific improvement of the human race, think of them...
Supporters of more contemporary and challenging books say they energize kids and spur discussions about social realities that may already be affecting the classroom or community. Yet where should the line be drawn? Debbi Grizzi, a Lincoln, Neb., mother, had to lift her jaw off the counter when she opened her 12-year-old's backpack and discovered A Need to Kill, a graphic account of a child killer who fantasizes and masturbates about murdering boys. "There has to be some check on what children are reading," she argues. Houston eighth-grade English teacher Susan Duhon agrees that teachers must...