Word: widely
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...constant horizontal movement paid off in the 45th minute, when midfielder Orly Ripmaster found herself wide open in the center of the field, 25 yards from goal...
Bredekamp says she hears complaints from kindergarten teachers across the country that "our kids need more play, rather than less, and our curriculum is a mile wide and an inch deep. The pressure is on coverage and not teaching in depth." According to Harriet Egertson, head of the early-learning section of the Nebraska department of education, "When large portions of the day are spent with kids listening instead of doing, then kids who don't learn quite that way fail." More time spent sitting and listening to a teacher may not be appropriate for younger learners, who benefit from...
...index cards, then export that material to a word-processing program for editing and arranging, clearly does just that. In addition, it gives the students the impression that Encarta is the be-all and end-all in the research process. Research, however, means hunting and collecting information from a wide variety of sources to ensure that a complete and accurate viewpoint is represented. By giving students shortcuts, such software undermines this process. We are allowing students to avoid the hard work necessary in educational pursuits. JEFF BARRONS Vientiane, Laos...
...looking at an older, married guy on a business trip who was wistfully scoping out the action. I asked my two friends, both of whom had girlfriends, if they thought we'd wind up like him, as sexually stunted as Stanley Kubrick must have been when he directed Eyes Wide Shut. "By the time I'm his age, you know what I'll be thinking about?" one of them asked, staring at a hot but annoyingly giggly blond. "Pie. A nice piece of pie. Even right now if you offered me her or an entire Cookie Puss...
...search for colon-cancer cells on their way to becoming tumors, and drugs like the new COX-2 inhibitors, which are improved versions of pain killers, can prevent those precancerous cells from progressing. By the end of the next decade, a simple blood test could alert doctors to a wide variety of cancer precursors...