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...more resilient if they are able to develop musical skills," she says. The school encourages students to write daily journal entries that can help officials identify children who are between homes. "There may be some homeless kids here we don't know about," Bell admits. "Just letting them unscrew their valve and let some steam out helps...
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...considering doing the same. In 2000 George W. Bush effectively secured the nomination after only nine states had voted. Al Gore was the victor after only two primaries. By the time Missouri voted March 7, turnout was just 19%. With a $1 billion budget gap forcing state workers to unscrew every third light bulb to save on electricity, some Missouri legislators say spending $3.7 million on a primary doesn't make sense. Politics is also a consideration. The three states that have canceled their primaries have Republican-controlled legislatures. With Bush assured the G.O.P. nomination, they see no reason...
...three men tried unsuccessfully to unscrew the bolted sign, the Red Line staff sat, watched, and chuckled, before scaring the vandals away...
...mice in our farmhouse are can-do intellectuals - mice of action. My wife opened a kitchen cabinet the other day and caught two of them using their tiny, humanish hands to unscrew the top from a jar of Skippy 25% reduced fat chunky peanut butter. Two nights later, amazingly, they succeeded, and rewarded themselves with a mouse feast that left the peanut butter half gone and, all around the jar, a triumphant scattering of scats, which look like chocolate sprinkles...