Word: accountants
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...court, Little Rock lawyer and state legislator Lisa Ferrell said last week that she knew the law contained no actual medical definition of partial birth but she voted for the measure because the procedure is "horrifying." The Arkansas ban, like the one passed by Congress, does not take into account the health of the pregnant woman or make a distinction between a viable fetus and a nonviable one--two issues enshrined by the Supreme Court...
...told, the women of '67 account for only 293 of those. We can hardly claim to speak for a generation, except insofar as revolutions, including social ones, are often made by the few on the front edge. We are not the inventors of feminism, but we are its first lifelong beneficiaries, eager and able to enter whatever profession we contemplated. So we define a large part of ourselves by our job titles, and then change the jobs and the titles along the way. Margot Eberman de Ferranti turned 50 and resigned from the civil division at the Justice Department...
CyberGold, based in Berkeley, Calif., has spent the past year creating what CEO Nat Goldhaber calls "the first market for human attention," offering Web surfers CyberGold "coins" that can be transferred into their bank account, turned into the online currency Cybercash, or, as of this week, credited to their VISA balance...
Then Nicholson throws his change-up. The very next scene reads as an undated journal entry from a guy named Stuart (in you guessed it) London. But unlike Nicholson's earlier chapters, "The Walker's Diary: The Penultimate Days" gives a man's account of London meanderings and musings that is wistful, genuine, eerie and, above all, nuanced. It is, in fact, so scintillating that it shines light on another flaw in Nicholson's text: it needs to be written in the first person. The peculiarities of Nicholson's style--in particular, his penchant for sprawling over-description--sound flat...
...field, in any corner of the world. Whether you intend to work in education or business, law or medicine, public service or the arts, and whether you see yourself working in Bangkok, Boston or Boise, your choices will not only include, but must certainly take into account, the international marketplace of the 21st century. Your products, your colleagues, and your responsibilities will all belong to this worldwide, increasingly interdependednt and interconnected network. It will, in fact, become ever more difficult to create and manage a professional career that is not international in at least one or several of its dimensions...