Word: writing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...more and more places today, the connections are palpable and practical. Colleges are once again helping neighborhood schools by designing curriculums and training teachers, helping write academic standards, and mounting capital campaigns. Some universities are starting charter schools from scratch on their campuses. Five years ago, just two states ran K-16 programs. Today 24 do, according to the Education Commission of the States. That's on top of scores of partnerships involving private colleges...
...agreed. I have watched a number of politicians (including the departing president) who have left behind a trail of the bleached bones of former friends. I might have added, "It's not such a hot idea to be friends with a writer, either. A writer will write you up. A writer, like a politician, lives under a mighty temptation to use people, even friends. Maybe especially friends, since the writer knows their stories best...
...This band] began to write its own rules, creating rock mini-suites...and writing lyrics that captured the numbing ambivalence that many people feel about living in a microprocessed...
...REBOOT, RECYCLE Anyone who finds a PC under the tree this year faces the question of what to do with the now outdated box. You can convert that old PC into a write-off rather than a doorstop--provided it's not too ancient. Groups like Share the Technology match PC donors with worthy charities. Or, for $29.99 IBM will take your PC and fix it up for a charity or recycle...
...Then, of course, there are the book deals looming on the horizon. No firm offers yet, but if Gore were moved to write, for example, a sequel to his "Earth in the Balance," he could probably find a publisher willing to take the risk...