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...Expert. This student regularly attempts to assert his competence by relating all discussions to his area of expertise, regardless of whether a clear connection exists. For instance, if the weekly topic in Historical Studies A-12 is World War II, then The Expert (let’s say he is an environmental science and public policy concentrator) will discuss at length the environmental degradation caused by Hitler’s Third Reich...
...annual average of 2.6 and the postwar record of six storms in both 1990 and 1993. The first nine killed 102 people and caused $6.7 billion worth of damage, according to Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki. Some meteorologists say the phenomenon is an inevitable by-product of global warming; others assert that the 10 storms were mere coincidence. Whatever the reason, Japan's season of the typhoon may not be over. Typhoon No. 24, known as Nock-ten, was gathering strength in the South Pacific late last week?and heading North...
...answer is settlement: the time when, about 6,000 years ago, mankind turned from a nomadic to an agricultural way of life. That was the moment, Cope says, when man began to assert some kind of existential control: "When we started putting stones around the campfire, when the hearth became the center of life, when suddenly the heavens started moving around us instead of them changing as we moved across the landscape...
...foreign commentators and reliable sources…assert that foreigners, especially students, overwhelmingly support Kerry,” Rotberg said...
Eric Shinseki did assert that more troops were needed, but he retired on schedule in June 2003. Shinseki had clashed with Donald Rumsfeld, though, and a leak from Rumsfeld's allies turned the general into a lame duck 15 months before he hung up his uniform--long before he called for more troops...