Word: wising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particular task, whether making money, curing the sick, helping the underprivileged, entertaining the bored, advancing science, winning arguments, reporting the news, deconstructing texts, grinding out punditry or decrying oppression. The liberal education goes beyond making one good at something or for something. It makes one good and wise without qualification. It aims to produce the whole human being, who possesses everything of genuine worth, who lives in truth rather than ignorance, and whose soul has come to rest...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said, "When we are ranked No. 1 we say how wise [the U.S. News editors] are, but when we are ranked something else we say they must be mistaken...
Earl is actually half black, one-quarter American Indian and one-quarter Chinese. His wife Kultida is half Thai, one-quarter Chinese and one-quarter white. She complains about press descriptions of Tiger as black when he's half Asian, but Earl's market-wise formulation is that when his son is playing in the U.S. he's black, and when he's playing in Asia he's Asian. His dark skin makes Tiger (whose nickname was taken from Earl's Vietnamese army buddy Nguyen Phong) all the more appealing in the world of golf, which not only...
...Sept. 24, is a sometimes amusing, mostly blah disc that may move units but doesn't move the soul. In better form is Counting Crows, whose first CD was a multiplatinum hit and a consistent delight; the band's Recovering the Satellites (Oct. 15) is a wise, worthy successor. Also, teen singer Aaliyah's second CD, One in a Million (just out), is soulfully soothing, and neo-soul performer Tricky's Pre-Millennium Tension (Nov. 5) should generate buzz. All three of these sophomores look ready to graduate to stardom...
...cell tissues. For basic activities such as breathing, controlling bowel and bladder movements and moving the arms and legs, a person may need only 8% to 10% of the estimated 800,000 spinal-cord nerves. "It's a source of great hope," says New York University's Dr. Wise Young, a distinguished researcher in the field, who is now working with Reeve. "It means that you don't have to preserve, restore and regenerate so many axons in order to get functional recovery...