Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of the Pennypacker athletes say theyenjoy living without such "challenges." They saythey like the company of others who come hometired at night after a hard day of practice andwho keep up with sports scores and watch games...
...cramped and airless space within is subdivided into 32 cubicles doled out to at least 100 men. The stink of sweat, unwashed clothing, old shoes and garbage suffuses the narrow makeshift corridors. Cooking noises mingle with the gurgle of kitchen-side urinals. On tiny TV sets, a few men watch home videos of kin and country long left behind, for some as much as a decade ago. Others stare at the distant passion of porn tapes smuggled in from the old homeland. Each night the sounds of aching and loneliness drift down to the streets of Chinatown...
Tenet's diplomatic play is sure to raise his stature in Washington. A former National Security Council staff member, he was thought by some to be too young and inexperienced when he took over the CIA at age 44. There have been missteps on his watch. The Indian nuclear tests last May caught the agency by surprise. Critics complain that the CIA knew too little about the pharmaceutical plant the U.S. bombed in Sudan to prove it was producing chemical weapons for terrorist Osama bin Laden...
While Harvard and other universities across the country tend to dismiss rankings such as those published in US News and World Report, which are partially based on opinion, universities take Science Watch's study seriously...
...Science Watch tabulators searched for references in journals of 21 fields across the science and social science fields in order to create the ranking...