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Movies: Drama In this clip from the space drama Gravity, astronauts Matt Kowalski ( George Clooney ) and Dr. Ryan Stone ( Sandra Bullock ) and their crew are hit by orbiting debris from a broken satellite while working around their space shuttle , resulting in Dr. Stone becoming detached and drifting into space. KEY VOCABULARY FOR THIS VIDEO meteorological - retrieve - debris - abort - detach - permission - Houston - no-go Slang In New York City Learn  15  new words and expressions related to this topic. For every vocabulary item there is an illustration, a definition, its use in a sample sentence, and audio pronunciation. WORD OF THE WEEK:  MOOLAH Definition in English: Money English-Attack! Thailand Supawan Inbunna   088-249-4917   supawan.inbunna@english-attack.com Donald Patnaude    081-855-2701    donald.patnaude@english-attack.com www.th.english-attack.com Related articles 197 ...

“Now I have to worry about this, too? Really? This shouldn’t be what they need to do to get where they want to, ” said Dodi Sklar, after listening to her ninth-grade son, Jonathan, describe how some classmates abuse stimulants.  He steered into the high school parking lot, clicked off the ignition and scanned the scraps of his recent weeks. Crinkled chip bags on the dashboard. Soda cups at his feet. And on the passenger seat, a rumpled SAT practice book whose owner had been told since fourth grade he was headed to the Ivy League. Pencils up in 20 minutes.  The boy exhaled. Before opening the car door, he recalled recently, he twisted open a capsule of orange powder and arranged it in a neat line on the armrest. He leaned over, closed one nostril and snorted it. Throughout the parking lot, he said, eight of his friends did the same thing. The drug was not cocaine or heroin, but Adderall , an amphetamine  prescribed for  attention deficit hyperactivi...

New York, NY , April 2, 2012:  123Greetings.com, the world’s leading e- greeting cards provider has launched one of the widest range of e-cards this Easter. With over 520 cards spread across 15 categories to choose from, users can view, customize and share free Easter e-cards with just a click at  FREE Easter EGreetings   Easter, one of the holiest Christian festival , is celebrated on the day Jesus rose from the dead. He was crucified on a Friday which is called the ' Good Friday '. According to the Canonical gospels , Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday, also known as Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday . The festival marks the end of Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer and penance, and brings with it optimism, cheer and hope. The E-cards at 123Greetings.com capture the mood of celebrations in its categories like 'Happy Easter', 'Religious', 'Friends...