Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trick, he says, is to "get teachers to overcome their fears." Ralph Ramos, a teacher at Picacho Middle School, confesses that his computers were sitting idle in the classroom. "Then Aaron trained me, and now I have my class dissecting frogs on the computer with a CD-ROM program and doing research on the Internet...
...searches for weapons and documents but could not avoid them. "My policy was to go where the trail led us," he said, and "we were led by our analysis that they were using presidential compounds." In fact, says Ekeus, Baghdad's present preoccupation with the palaces is "a clear trick." The prohibited items (mostly chemical and biological weapons and records of their production) are transportable. They can be hidden for weeks at a palace, then hauled by truck to a school, a barracks, an office. "We were interested in the material," says Ekeus. "The moment you start to focus...
BRING ON THE BIG MAC Preliminary research suggests that taking vitamins C and E before pigging out may protect blood vessels from some of the clogging effects of a fatty meal. Fruits and veggies may also do the trick...
...virtual world of TinyMUD, an early experiment in online community building in the pre-Web Internet. Mauldin's idea was to use the all-text environment of the MUD to stage a so-called Turing Test--that is, he wanted to build a piece of software that could trick humans into thinking they were communicating with one of their own. It worked. "One guy hit on Julia for 13 days," recalls Mauldin, noting that although the bot was always brushing off her online Lothario, he interpreted it as coyness...
...great hair. (Dr. K is the one, glorious exception.) Start with the essential winter coat. Finding the perfect winter jacket can take a lifetime of devoted shopping. However, the brutal Iowa winters of Dr. K's youth have taught her well--she never feels cold or looks bulky. The trick is to layer like a farm girl. When looking for the ultimate winter coat, try to resist the allure of poofy Michelin Man jackets and other high-tech numbers. Instead, bust out with several strata of cozy natural fibers...