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...still more a theory than a real threat. His interest in stabilizing post-apartheid South Africa has drawn him to the problems of goat farmers and ways of bringing clean water and solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came up with a startling answer: new democracies tend to fail most often when they have a high infant-mortality rate. Clinton's National Security Council quickly found itself boning...
Jaime C. Buehl '01, another member of the club, said the Seneca's alternative application process, which will be open to anyone--unlike the invitation-only final clubs--is just one of several aspects of the Seneca that sets it apart...
Jaime C. Buehl '01, another member of the club, said the Seneca's alternative application process, which will be open to anyone--unlike the invitation-only final clubs--is just one of several aspects of the Seneca that sets it apart...
...dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this fine recitation goes, by sheer loopy eloquence getting a couple of beat-up bull riders from rodeo to rodeo in their falling-apart pickup, ending with, "...turning into midnight motel entrances with RING OFFICE BELL signs or steering onto the black prairie for a stunned hour of sleep." That's in a story called The Mud Below, and it just about nails pickup trucks and rodeo soldiers...
...timing of having children, debating about whether to leave a successful career. The work/life issue comes up a lot," says Martin, who shuttles to St. Louis, Mo., on weekends to visit her husband, a surgical resident at a hospital there. "It's been a huge sacrifice to be apart," she says of her own case, "but I do believe it'll pay off." It already has--Martin will start work at A.G. Edwards, which has its headquarters in St. Louis, in the summer...