Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...This summer, which happens to mark the 75th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial," LeVake will take his cause to Minnesota's Court of Appeals, where, after losing in district court, he is suing the Faribault school district for discrimination. Really, he's suing for the opportunity to teach evolution in a new way. LeVake is a Fundamentalist Christian, but his biology lesson plan doesn't include the word God or creationism. All he asks is that as a scientist, he be allowed to let students know about some of the holes in Darwin's theory...
...worth remembering, right about here, that "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it, or listening to someone else read it aloud, requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
...novel follows, in broad outline, the formula of the earlier books, rescuing Harry from some summer suffering at the home of the Dursleys, his dreadful Muggle (nonmagical human) relatives; transporting him and his two best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; and then exposing the hero to another threat from Lord Voldemort, the fearsome Dark wizard who murdered his parents but mysteriously failed to kill the one-year-old Harry at the same time...
...very excited about the holiday since it is my first time to spend July 4th in America," said summer school student Sung Min You, who is from South Korea...
...have such patriotic events in Italy," said summer school student Ceren Gurkan, who lives in Rome. "Other than football matches, such excitement for one's country is rarely seen...