Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HARVARD STUDENTS are a bit above this, although you might not always think so. Student organizations hold "comps" (or "punches") to weed out the unqualified. Students compete against each other for fellowships, grants, grades. A few students rip pages out of important reference books, or highlight them in black magic marker...
...couple of books of short stories, Facing the Music and Big Bad Love, and a novel, Dirty Work. The new novel is clear, simple and powerful, and it is great, rowdy fun to read. Brown balances his fond but unsentimental portrait of Joe Ransom with stinging | sketches of a weed-tough young white-trash boy named Gary, who tags after Joe, and of Gary's evil father, a human scorpion named Wade. If anyone doubted it, Flem Snopes lives...
...American Midwest. With bulldozers and dredges, they are removing the dirt and garbage that have been dumped on wetlands. With hacksaws and herbicides, they are attacking exotic interlopers that have displaced native vegetation. With shovels and rakes, they are replanting original species of trees and grasses, returning to weed and water fragile seedlings a hectare at a time...
...ideal of the suburbs, the old American dream of home ownership and clean, well-lighted streets, may still contain a dose of nobility. But this paradise of parking lots and chemically treated, weed-free grass has never lived up to its promise. No mass transit means that millions of minivans clog our roads and foul our air. Malls and office complexes have lovely little atriums with trees, even as their power plants consume vast reservoirs of fossil fuels to air condition them...
...Their argument is bolstered by several studies showing that even well-informed, well-equipped teenagers engage in high-risk sexual activity. "The strategic mistake we're making is to assume that more knowledge and greater access to condoms are going to change high-risk behavior," says Stan Weed, 48, director of the Institute for Research and Evaluation, a nonprofit laboratory in Salt Lake City. "Teens approach sex in neither a logical nor a rational...