Word: stooped
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...perfect human to operate it--no careless fingers, no need to make back-up Zip files, no changing minds about what you've plugged in. Instead of blaming it, though, I feel like apologizing to the digital brain for my flaws. After all, a computer that doesn't stoop to notice its imperfections is so very...
...South Boston. I take them on the swan boats in the Public Gardens, to the Museum of Afro-American Art, to Harvard. I hope they will understand that a whole world lies just a short T ride away. The realization that different life paths exist, besides corner-loitering or stoop-sitting, is the only way that the next generation of Southie kids will be able to move out. Leaving the close-knit Southie community, where everybody is related in some way to everybody else and gossip quickly spreads from stoop to stoop, means breaking the protective ties of familiarity...
...solution is not to cancel all car pools and revert to the long, lazy days of my childhood--which, now that I think of it, consisted of my whining about being bored, then sprinkling sugar across the front stoop to create an ant farm--and then begging my mother to let me out of my room while promising never to unleash another insect plague...
...Sitting on the stoop outside Holworthy munching on bread and grease, I was disgusted with myself and my vision of freshman year. I would pretend to be like these other girls, who were having the time of their lives, but I would never have fun because I was in constant worrywart mode...
...management at the News." Part of it also might be that those tech-savvy transplants are content to hit the newsstands in cyberspace and read the Times from L.A. or New York online - at zero dollars a day - rather than get the local news on their front stoop for a quarter. Newspaper wars have traditionally been fought on the streets, with big headlines and eye-catching subscription deals, for the hearts and coins of the masses. Ripening economies like Seattle's and Denver's might just be outgrowing local ink. And the last great newspaper war in America is slipping...