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...same time, many long-time staffers decided to leave, and a thorough staff change was put in place at the beginning of the academic year, Lang added...
...have done such a thorough job of sensitizing our children to the horrors of sexual abuse that they often know better than their elders what is now considered inappropriate personal touching. Physical contact of the sort that parents have with their children--the tickling and other affectionate horseplay--is inappropriate when dealing with other people's children. Some standards may seem overly careful or even ridiculous, but the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, an organization that counsels nonprofit groups on legal liabilities, says everyone who works with children--whether as a Sunday-school teacher or school-dance chaperone--should be vigilant...
...Gates & Co. have clamped down on Easter eggs. The reason has to do less with the fear of seeing themselves in a state of undress than with the fear of lawsuits from corporations that want their software to undergo thorough quality control. You're not likely to find any eggs in Microsoft's post-1997 output...
...part why the members of the Human Genome Project, which is funded by National Institutes of Health, are warning that exuberance over the most recent announcement may be misplaced. The federal scientists have long taken issue with Celera's techniques, saying that the public project is taking a more thorough approach to the mapping. "There are gaps in Celera's gene sequence," says Thompson. "But what the public project doesn't like to say is that there are big gaps in their sequences as well. Right now we simply don't have the technology to clone some chromosomes...
...transforming Harvard into such a competitive and talented team seems to have been second-year Head Coach Tom Wilson. With his thorough recruiting of quality players like Bookman and freshman Alex Kowell, as well as his dedication to making the team a more cohesive unit, Wilson has turned a .500 program into one that will seriously threaten for EIVA supremacy in the future...