Word: without
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share their scholarly excitement, they have crushed great learning into mediocre bits, lest students choke on it. They have reduced great revelation to mere relevance. In the process, the great thinkers who might otherwise inspire men and women to greatness, become cold marble busts sitting mute while scores graduate without their sage teachings...
Even at Harvard, with its plethora of resources, multiracial and biracial students feel neglected. Caught in limbo between cultures and identities, they need a place to turn. The desire to celebrate and appreciate all the distinct components of their heritage is strong, but it is difficult without having a reliable support network...
...check you had to go to your own bank or a branch. You had to show up during banking hours, wait in line and then have proper identification. The banks have purchased and installed ATMs at a cost of thousands of dollars. Does anybody really think they did that without expecting to make a profit? Now you can go to your bank's ATMs and get cash usually at no charge at almost any time. Why would anybody in his right mind object to paying a few dollars for this convenience? JOSEPH T. FREEMAN Cary...
DeAngelis admits that harassment could have occurred without his knowing, without anyone complaining. Kids as troubled as Harris and Klebold aren't likely to stop making bombs one day and decide what they really should do is talk to an ex-jock principal about what's bugging them. And an alienated teen probably wouldn't expose his interior life during a well-attended extracurricular event. But DeAngelis says the official police report on Columbine, set for release in January, will show that the school wasn't a brutish place where cool kids humiliated outcasts every...
DUST BUSTER Why hire a housekeeper when technology can do the dirty work for you? Dyson's DC06 robotic vacuum cleaner, unveiled last week and due out in May, uses three onboard computers and 50 sensors to navigate its way around your plants, pets and furniture--all without tumbling down the stairs. The DC06 hums along at 1.5 ft. per sec. and can negotiate small inclines up to 1-in. high. If it sounds too good to be true, perhaps the price will bring you back to earth: at $3,500, it's more expensive than hired help...