Word: strikingly
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Whether Xers stay home or strike out on their own, the generation gap yawns as wide as ever. Twentysomethings can paint a scathing portrait of their elders. "I think I was conceived on an acid trip," muses one Xer in the film Reality Bites. Another asks, "How can we repair all the damage we inherited?" Novelist Coupland, in a memorable essay in 1995, accused boomers, "pummeled by the recession and embarrassed by their own compromised '60s values," of "transferring their collective darkness onto the group threatening to take their spotlight." Indeed, pollsters find that boomers are markedly more pessimistic than...
...this doesn't strike you as hot gaming action, you're probably not a girl between eight and 13--which is to say, a member of Brenda Laurel's favorite demographic group. Laurel, a veteran of computer-game wars going back to Atari, has lately taken on the mystery of why there isn't better software for girls. The result, backed by the deep pockets of Interval Research, the high-tech think tank of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is a start-up called Purple Moon, whose debut CD-ROMs will be unveiled in two weeks at the annual Electronic...
...most of the opener, it was. Harvard took a 6-0 lead into the final inning. Jamieson was pitching a six-hit shutout through six and two-thirds innings and was one strike away from completing Harvard's seventh victory of the season...
...Some people worry that it reduces the contact of students and Faculty, but I disagree," he says. "If you strike up a relationship in cyberspace, you can possibly lure the student into coming in in person...
...drop in status), we are puzzled as to how Harvard lags behind Yale and Princeton, respectively. During the last few years, Yale has been struggling to overcome financial instability and labor strife. Last spring, undergraduates were forced to fend for themselves when the dining services went on strike. Earlier that term, Elis were locked out of their classrooms when teaching fellows battled the administration. At Princeton, sophomores were forced to inhabit trailers as a poor excuse for overflow housing. Whatever our problems at Harvard, we've never lacked teachers, food or permanent housing. These issues aside, the survey would likely...