Word: tickly
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...people who like writing good software not for financial gain but with the goal of making the Internet a kinder, gentler place. What “open-source” means in this context is that anyone who wants to can look at the code that makes Firefox tick, a set-up which allows an enormous community of dedicated programmers to look out for bugs and security holes and generally keep things honest. Combine this key fact with clever features like an effective pop-up blocker, and you’ll find Firefox will continue to be well protected...
...maybe it has more to do with our academic loads. As we tick off requirements on our plans of study, some courses are not only getting harder, but less mandatory—and so in many cases, we like our classes more. Or we realize we’ve been slacking off for the last two years and decide that we simply want to be students again. Or at the very least, we’ve probably chosen these classes ourselves, and so have no one but ourselves to blame if they’re abysmal...
...in” fee: it avoids the problem of having to “revote” when you (or your parents) pay the term bill, and it ensures that enough money will be secured for a renewable energy purchase even if people forget to tick a box on their term bill. Since students, and not parents, are the ones using energy in the dorms, making the fee “opt-out” will extend the power of students’ decision from the ballot to the term bill, while still allowing for the veto power of students...
...superintendent of schools in Ann Arbor, Mich., George Fornero can tick off the kind of statistics that might cause ambitious parents to consider moving across the country to get their kids into his schools. The class of 2004 in the city's three main high schools racked up a combined average score of 1165 on the SAT, 139 points higher than the national average. Eighty-five percent of their seniors go on to four-year colleges. And last year they had 44 National Merit finalists. But there are other numbers of which Fornero is less proud. The district's African...
What Makes John Kerry Tick...