Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Detective Kate Battan still sees it in her sleep--still sees what she saw that first day in April, when she was chosen to lead the task force that would investigate the massacre. Bullet holes in the banks of blue lockers. Ceiling tiles ajar where kids had scampered to hide in the crawl space. Shoes left behind by kids who literally ran out of them. Dead bodies in the library, where students cowered beneath tables. One boy died clenching his eyeglasses, and another gripped a pencil as he drew his last breath. Was he writing a goodbye note...
...director of a college health service, my prime task is to prevent people from getting ill and certainly from dying. I think it's a very very high [risk] to put a price tag on that...
...Translating the 600-odd-page novel to screen wasn't an easy task. Previous attempts at movie adaptations of Irving's novels have disappointed. Hotel New Hampshire, even with the talents of Jodie Foster and Beau Bridges, was pretty bad, and The World According to Garp, starring Robin Williams, wasn't much better. The worst, however, was Simon Birch, the big-screen "adaptation" of A Prayer for Owen Meany. It was so terrible, in fact, that Irving forced Disney to remove the original characters' names from the movie, leaving only a "loosely inspired by" credit. These films were missing...
...flashier than the daily, a bit brattier, and its staff tends to be a bit better looking. Traditionally, FM s only interaction with the rest of the newspaper has been with angry News Department proofers--proofers who have enthusiastically channeled years of social frustration into the task of eviscerating the magazine s often colorful prose. ("Hoochie" is not a racial slur...
Once upon a time, a trip to the grocery store was a simple, almost mind-numbing task. These days, shopping for dinner and translating myriad food labels begs a Ph.D. in biochemistry and a solid background in current affairs. And Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture decided to make things even more interesting, issuing its long-awaited approval of irradiation technology for meat. That's right - in roughly 60 days, there will be a new label to inspect at your local market: The "radura" symbol will adorn meat that's been zapped by gamma rays - much in the manner...