Word: waywardness
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...GMRS two-way radios ($329 a unit) not only offer twice the range (as far as five miles) but also come with a built-in global positioning system. Take a pair on a camping trip to Yellowstone, and you'll be able to track your buddies and wayward children. Punch in the coordinates, and the GPS satellites can guide you back to base camp--or the nearest McDonald...
...colleges, had to quit last week in disgrace when it emerged they were willing to admit a bright but not stellar boy whose father was offering to contribute $420,000. Unfortunately for them, the "father" was a reporter for the Sunday Times. Pembroke and Oxford swiftly repudiated their supposedly wayward officials. All Britain united in condemning the sale of university places. And who could disagree? In modern meritocracies, state-funded universities are supposed to be incubators of talent, not whorehouses for the already privileged. All the same, I find myself squirming at the neatness of this morality tale...
Although Tsvangirai welcomed the Commonwealth action as a message to Mugabe that his "wayward behavior" was unacceptable, he said he would be happier if the regional Southern African Development Community suspended Zimbabwe as well. But local leaders, in particular South Africa's Mbeki, are concerned that isolating Mugabe would increase regional instability...
...next few months Pike will risk following the wayward path of Harvard’s current frats, but if PKA catches fire, Harvard students may look back on the days before Pike and wonder how they ever lived without it. “It could change the face of Harvard social life,” Parry says...
Thirty years ago, surgery meant mastectomy--removal of the entire breast. By the 1980s, studies had shown that for tumors that had not spread, only the portion immediately surrounding the cancerous growth needed to be cut away--provided the operation was followed by radiation therapy to destroy any wayward cancer cells the surgeon may have missed. Today, as more women are being treated for ever smaller tumors, doctors are finding that even these so-called lumpectomies can be further refined...