Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I enrolled in a program at Stanford and took a class in American Government. But instead of a comprehensive course about the intricacies of our nation's bureaucracy, which was meant to gear me up for the A.P. exam, I spent three hours each morning listening to the ranting and raving of a liberal hippie from Florida. He wanted us to call him Bob. He swore by his Birkenstocks. And he thought anyone who wanted to run for the President of the United States was crazy...
...just stop with the Stanford envy, and try to appreciate the unusual loveliness of the nothing-if-not-variable New England weather. Maybe I'm being ridiculously optimistic, but how can I help it? It's such a nice, warm, fragrant fall...
...will be a geriatric world, at least in wealthy countries, with at least 20% of the people 60 years or older," says Stanford chemist Carl Djerassi, synthesizer of the birth-control pill. For that reason, he predicts, drug companies will turn from contraception to conception in an effort to help older women have babies. As for aging men, they'll have at their disposal libido and sex-performance boosters that will make Viagra seem like baby aspirin...
Behind this newly productive offense, Meagher has regained confidence and played solidly between the posts. Although the young netminder registered 11 saves in Harvard's 1-0 loss to Stanford at the beginning of October, he let up 10 goals over three losses in the middle of the month...
...Harvey spent nine years as resident fellows in a dorm at Stanford and lived to tell about it in their book Virtual Reality and the College Freshman. "The freshman student often faces an identity crisis during the first semester," they write. "Kids know who they are in their senior year of high school, but a freshman has to reach out and start from scratch." College is a more pressured environment than it used to be, in part because the academic gap between high school and college has increased. Many college freshmen have never had to make independent decisions about...