Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CITY Water running off paved surfaces carries toxins like motor oil into rivers. Inadequately treated sewage makes things worse. New sewage-treatment plants must be built and wetlands preserved to allow rainwater to filter through soil...
...read quietly in another room so that your brain associates your bed with sleep, not anxiety. Meanwhile, work with your body instead of against it. Don't nap after 3 p.m. Cut back on caffeine, especially in the afternoon or evening. Don't drink alcohol at night; it may allow you to fall asleep more easily but you're likely to suffer a rebound effect in a few hours. Getting up at the same time every morning is also important, because that makes it easier to synchronize your body's biological clock. Whatever you do, don't panic...
...McConaughey is the news here, dimples showing through the chin scruff, drawling out punch lines so you don't hear the rim shot, anchoring a film with enough weirdos to populate a Preston Sturges comedy. It's odd that this movie, not a star vehicle, should allow him to radiate star quality, and that's due in part to Howard's gift with actors. But it's more about this actor's sure connection with the character and the camera, and through them, the mass of moviegoers. Here he plays a man with the resources to handle unearned fame...
...there's really not much to hang your hat on here. If science doesn't back you up, you can just say science must be wrong! If reason doesn't back you up, no problem; women have for too long been held down by reason. You didn't allow for the chemistry between men and women, what happens when they get together. Without this essential chemistry, your theories fizzle. T. PAIGE DALPORTO Charlton Heights, W.Va...
...this paper, I examine one of Harvard's tiniest but most socially significant genres of literature: the plan file. To those of you unfamiliar with this academic field, please allow me to explain. When someone fingers your account on the Harvard UNIX server, the screen displays the last time and place that you logged on, as well as an optional message--the plan--that greets whoever is fingering you. Most often, these plan files are either blank or filled with a brief witty saying. It's not uncommon, however, to see plan files that push the very envelope...