Word: switch
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Faeza knows she's incredibly lucky to have a new life at all. Though security in Iraq has improved considerably in recent months, it's a safe bet that most Iraqis would willingly switch places with her. "Life is difficult here," says Faeza. "But there, in one moment...
...election before." McCain - who was famously burned in South Carolina in 2000 after his New Hampshire victory, when a whisper campaign and George Bush's dominance of the state's Republican party structure combined to deliver a crushing blow - was openly nervous. He even asked his staff to switch his exit song at rallies from confident, macho stuff like the Rocky theme to something that would make a softer, humbler appeal to voters. Thus the confluence of John McCain and ABBA's Take A Chance...
...United Nations World Food Programme says that the timeline for when the Kenyan refugees will return home is highly uncertain. The agency has started distributing food along the Uganda-Kenya border. Kenya's opposition announced Friday that it would switch to economic protests and boycotts next week, but refugees seeking shelter are still expected to flock to Uganda. It is an unusual situation for Uganda, which still has millions of its own citizens displaced due to a brutal 20-year civil war. The conflict between Lord's Resistance Army rebels and the Ugandan government only ended in July 2006. Nevertheless...
There are reasons to conclude that romance as well was shaped by the unsentimental hand of evolution. We humans don't have a monopoly on oxytocin and other molecules linked to feeling in love. Love may switch on reward pathways in our brains, but other animals have similar--if simpler--reward pathways...
...from his class. Pilbeam said the information professors receive from the evaluations is vital.“I gather that some students don’t realize that the faculty actually read them,” Pilbeam said.QUALITY CONTROLOther professors say Q responses have grown less thoughtful since the switch from paper to online forms in 2005—a move originally aimed at boosting student responses.“Since it has gone online, it has become less useful for the faculty because students give it less time,” said Jewish studies professor Jay M. Harris...