Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crucial battle in the Duma vote, though, is for second place. The elections will serve as a measure of how badly Luzhkov, Primakov and Fatherland have been hurt by the Kremlin's attacks. Instead of barnstorming the country and mobilizing his impressive network of contacts and favors, Luzhkov, Fatherland's most effective campaigner, has been neutralized by the Kremlin. And while Primakov exudes integrity and reassurance, he is a lackluster public politician...
...transplant of blood cells from the umbilical cord of a newborn infant. In effect, he got a new bloodmaking system. Other young sickle-cell patients have undergone transplants, but these involved bone-marrow cells and had to be matched precisely with the recipients' own blood. In Keone's case, though, his half-sister could not offer matching marrow. So his doctors decided to turn to more easily available cord blood. Consisting largely of immature stem cells, it does not require precise matches between recipient and donor...
...getting children to a standard," says New York City's school chancellor, Rudy Crew, "it shouldn't come as any wonder that there are going to be people who will find a creative way of cheating." Crew argues that such incidents do not mean the tests should be abandoned, though others disagree. "The country has gone test crazy," says Robert Schaeffer, a director at FairTest, an organization that monitors standardized testing. "The more you ratchet up the pressure on these Trivial Pursuit types of exams, the more cheating you will...
...seen as copycats and that they were planning their own horror before other school shootings made news. Nevertheless, we had to wrestle with whether running a picture of them might seem, perversely, to glorify them to other twisted minds or give them the publicity they wanted, even though they are dead...
...BASH Three monologues by Neil LaBute, each exposing the dark deeds hidden behind ordinary faces. Though his pessimism is a bit forced, LaBute writes sharp dialogue and has created some juicy roles, two of which gave Calista Flockhart a chance to help us forget Ally McBeal, at least for a little while...