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Word: grewing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...wounds were many for a woman who grew up in Alabama in the 1950s and '60s; who as a child was warned not to roll down the car windows lest Ku Klux Klan members throw acid in her face; who as a teen watched men and women and children in satin robes burn a cross on her lawn; and who as a college student joined an armed protest to demand a black-studies program at Cornell University. She felt she had two choices after graduation: become a Black Panther or return to Nepal (where she had spent part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Color and The Cushion | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...charming revisit to the more innocent days of country music, and must surely have given Jones great pleasure. After all, he grew up listening to the clear band of WSM in Nashville (the home of the Grand Ole Opry) and such stars as Tennessee's Roy Acuff and Kentucky's Bill Monroe, the latter, of course, the inventor of bluegrass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George's Gems | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...ever accused Rudenstine of being a personally evil person. Regardless, his background is irrelevant to the campaign," said PSLM member Amy C. Offner '01. "It doesn't matter how much his parents made and where he grew up. The concern here is a social crisis in our community and on our campus...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Mock Pageant Held to Criticize Labor Practices | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Blue Devils' lead steadily grew. After Jenn Monti's three tied the game at 20, Harvard went cold, missing shot after shot as CCSU ended the half...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Identity Crisis | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

Breazeal was uniquely suited to the task of building this new robot. She grew up near the technology-rich area that would become Silicon Valley. Her father was a mathematician and her mother a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her parents raised her, she says, to be "protechnology." Breazeal became captivated by robots at age 8 when she saw Star Wars for the first time. "I just fell in love with the Droids," she says, especially R2-D2. "But I was old enough to realize those kinds of robots didn't exist." Growing up, she considered becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Machine Nurturer | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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