Word: tanked
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Before he returned Friday evening, the town had been engulfed in gunfire. Serbian troops had launched a full-scale attack, firing rockets from the south and tank guns from the north. "It appears to be the final assault on Srebrenica," said one U.N. official. The Serbs closed to within a mile of the town, then held their fire. Though residents and refugees joyously crowded around the huge white relief trucks, shouting and weeping, the shipment did not carry enough to provide for all of them. "We need to get another one in right away," said a spokesman...
...Waikiki Beach, two female dolphins poke their heads out of the water, waiting for a command. "O.K.," says Louis Herman, founder and director of the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory, "now let's try a tandem creative." Two graduate students, positioned at opposite ends of the 50-ft. tank, throw full body and soul into communicating this message to the animals, Phoenix and Akeakamai. First the humans ask the dolphins to pay attention by holding a finger high in the air. Then they tap the index fingers of each hand together, forming the gesture that has been taught to mean...
Schusterman devised an elaborate procedure to ensure against cuing: signals to Rio were delivered by a trainer who did not know the correct answer. Rio would start the test by choosing one of two randomly selected symbols on a scoreboard-like apparatus next to her tank. She would then be presented with two new icons and asked to pick which one was logically equivalent to the symbol she had chosen earlier...
Clinton initially became enthusiastic about national service through his participation in the Democratic Leadership Council. Will Marshall of the D.L.C.'s think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute, offers several other reasons for concentrating on high school graduates. "First," says Marshall, "the opportunity costs to the economy are lower. If a college grad delays taking a regular private-sector job, society loses the tax receipts of his labor. Second, since most high school graduates would live at home and are unmarried, we'd be spared the ancillary housing and child-care costs the program aims to pay for. Third, job displacement...
Just one short week after the "storm of the century," it doesn't look like spring. Piles of snow and ice still line the streets of Harvard Square, temperatures dip below freezing and students are more likely to be clad in topcoats than tank tops...