Word: alienness
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...change, is an action movie that takes its subject but not itself seriously. It has a theme: the temptation to become something other and powerful, instead of cozy, ordinary you. It borrows not only from the Trek canon, but from other science fiction (eek!--there's a killer alien on board!). Yet First Contact is no grab bag of camp gewgaws; it stands proud and apart, accessible even to the Trek-deficient. This old Star, it seems, has a lot of life...
...Begay argues that these rates fail to reflect that far higher numbers of Native Americans actually enter higher education--and then drop out. He says this is because many Native Americans are only beginning to feel comfortable in an alien educational system...
...hasn't been fighting here since George Washington massed his troops on the Commons more than 200 years ago--but from America at least our America. Our, elite America hasn't been fighting for quite a while. Military men and women among us today appear anomalous. Veterans seem somehow alien, if we conceive of them as living; more often, though, we think of them as dead...
...Rosenthal] was paranoid, upset that she had changed and was becoming an alien. He didn't recognize her," Zalkind said in a telephone interview yesterday...
...recently, an e-mail arrived in my inbox, bringing to my attention something very little known. Deeply embedded within House Resolution Four, the welfare reform bill passed this summer, is a stipulation that cuts federal student aid to legal immigrants by grossly inflating their income. Using a device called "alien sponsor deeming," sponsors' assets (which immigrants need in some cases to gain legal entrance to the United States) are added to the immigrant's finances to create an overinflated income. According to the e-mail, projections show that under the welfare bill, $21 million in Pell Grants and $31 million...