Word: lengthening
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...academy will lengthen the CRLS summer program from its current four weeks to five weeks and will increase the teacher-to-student ratio for most classes...
ATTENTION GETTER Hey, parents! We've finally found a video-game system designed to lengthen--not shorten--your child's attention span. Developer East3 redesigned some NASA biofeedback technology to build the Attention Trainer, a helmet that monitors brain activity through the scalp. The data are relayed wirelessly to a PC and used in special games developed by Hasbro Interactive in which vehicles move faster or targets grow larger when players focus their attention. At about $1,000, it's not quite ready for the PlayStation crowd...
Tubridy started the run at about the 14-minute mark, knocking down two jumps shots for four of her 12 points on the night. After a free throw by senior guard Carrie Larkworthy, Peljto would lengthen the lead with a lay-up and a three-pointer for five of her game-high 19 points to extend Harvard's lead to 20-9 with just over 11 minutes remaining in the half...
...they assume that their discomfort will go away. And yet, says June Dahl, professor of pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin, that reluctance can backfire. Left uncontrolled, the pain you thought was temporary can trigger a long-term chronic condition. It can also interfere with the healing process and lengthen your recovery time...
...what they were going to do next. Because it doesn't always come up roses. James Watt's steam engine generated an Industrial Revolution that gave us a democracy of possessions--and over-population, acid rain, the Love Canal, disappearing forests, tattered ozone layers and Scud missiles. Medical miracles lengthen our lives and take national welfare provision to the edge of crisis. Electronic globalization moves jobs elsewhere...