Word: three-year-old
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...Yankee vitriol that caused fewer people to watch the World Series this year. It’s true that the games, played three time zones away on the other coast, could seem remote to anyone who does not live in California. But the contests were marked by moments of clutch hitting, including the double Angels cleanup hitter Garret Anderson belted to right field in game seven, and of high human drama, as when J. T. Snow deftly scooped Giants manager Dusty Baker’s three-year-old son from danger at home plate in game five. This World Series...
...tenement. The building is home to several hundred families in the suburb of Microyan, and the detonation, only thirty yards from the ground floor apartments, shattered every window facing the park in the crumbling five-story block. Sleeping children woke terrified, coated in shards of glass. A three-year-old stood by her mother, her face laced with tiny cuts. Two or three people were reported injured, none seriously. For hours the tinkling of sweeping glass could heard up and down the corridors...
...depressing the task of learning these things has seemed. These days, I’ve just decided to move on to the next platform of existence by accepting my pure ignorance. It is almost a perverse badge of honor to feel less knowledgeable about computers than a precocious three-year-old. As a director, this hasn’t affected my professional life too much at all, because I always have been able to hire assistants to help me gain access to things I don’t understand. It can be a little embarrassing to admit the colossal lack...
...three show up at the same time. At least they did last week in Spain. In the space of a few days the World Cup in athletics got off the blocks in Madrid, the World Equestrian Games went to the starting gate in Jerez and the World Rowing Championships were launched in Seville. At the athletics track the crowd had hoped to see U.S. sprinter Tim Montgomery, fresh from setting a new 100-m world record at the season's last Grand Prix event in Paris. Montgomery had clipped .01 seconds off Maurice Greene's three-year-old record...
Additionally, Harvard gave up its three-year-old fight to build a modern art museum on the Charles River...