Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Narrative: "Tell guests about the route, scenery and points of interest...
...same issue were raised in one of those places, the plaintiff's counsel would say, 'They did this in New Jersey,' and the court would pay attention," says Michael Ossip, chairman of an American Bar Association subcommittee on age discrimination. In other words, next time you tell the new kid down the hall that he needs to pay his dues, you could end up paying them...
...midst of all this, the ones who live among ghosts conduct their own private investigations. "My friends think I'm crazy," says a well-to-do Cambodian who returned here from Canada. "People tell me, 'Why do you want to look at these things? It's easier to forget.' But I want to understand why it happened"--he means the self-extermination of his country--"so it will never happen again." When Pol Pot died, Keo Lundi, from the Tuol Sleng center, says, "I spent my own money to go to his province, to talk to his brother and sister...
...such anthropomorphic musing. The Colorado State University scientist is there to retrieve dead pups, which he gingerly extracts from the seal-covered shore by snagging them with a noose on a long pole. He'll take the tiny corpses back to a lab for autopsies. The work will tell him what ailed the pups when they died--and give him clues to the health of the entire fur-seal population...
...have neuroscience research to back up a lot of what we believe about child development," says Dr. Patricia Kuhl, an expert on speech and hearing at the University of Washington. "But we do have a wealth of data over the past 40 years from developmental and cognitive psychology that tell us those early years are hugely important...