Word: yorks
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Instead, according to Stephen D. Singer, director of college counseling at the Horace Mann School in New York City, many students are applying early because they say they believe it will give them a better chance at being admitted...
Secondly, J.K. Rowling is practically the embodiment of virtue herself. A single mother on welfare when she wrote the first Potter book, she has rapidly risen to becoming the author of three New York Times bestsellers. And she's accomplished this all through her own persistence and ingenuity. Rowling is the Horatio Alger of our Gilded Age, never mind that she's from Scotland...
...Transportation Safety Board lab in Washington are examining the cockpit voice recorder, recovered late Saturday evening. The recorder only contains 30 minutes of cockpit conversations before it starts taping over itself, but that should be enough to tell the story. It was less than 40 minutes into its New York City to Cairo run when the Boeing 767-300 ER dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 seconds, paused, quickly climbed upwards for more than a mile, then fell towards the waters off the Massachusetts coast. Speculation on that unusual flight pattern now centers...
What is Madeleine Albright thinking? On Friday, an anonymous source told the New York Times that the secretary of state has offered to "be the lightning rod for criticism" if the White House agrees to compromise on a deal to pay $1 billion in back dues the U.S. owes the United Nations. Negotiations have been stalled for months: House Conservatives won't release the cash unless the White House agrees to a ban on U.S. funding of all programs that promote abortion rights. Clinton's acceptance of the conservatives' language - allowing himself the loophole of executive waivers for specific cases...
...them mad or you just might find some unpleasant surprises in your next baked Idaho. After a run of bad press, biotech companies are taking the offensive to save face, not to mention profits, in a potentially explosive market. Friday's New York Times reports a surge of public relations maneuverings from a number of biotech giants, including Monsanto, Norvartiscoei and DuPont, to put a friendlier face on their modified- food crops here in the U.S. Opponents charge that by changing the makeup of foods to increase productivity or enhance favorable characteristics, the companies are forcing "Frankenstein" crops...