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...dropping numbers and the virtual paralysis of the peer counselors, the administration shifted their policy slightly. Peer counseling groups can now initiate contact with a proctor group's peer counseling representative, but the peer reps still have no obligation to do outreaches and are only provided with the barest outlines of a job description...
...beautifully sculpted, convoluted mass of tissue that once embodied a devout mind--arrives at the University of Kentucky, where it is processed, assigned a number and then locked away like a rare book. Each brain is photographed, weighed and sliced into sections. From these sections researchers remove the barest slivers of tissue, which they examine under high-power microscopes. What they are looking for is the freckling of brownish plaques and blackish tangles that are the telltale marks of Alzheimer's. While such blemishes may show up in virtually any area of the brain, they are usually densest...
Conceding that Friday's move was a step in the right direction, some investigators and officials in the field nonetheless contend that it is another case of the cleanup team's doing the barest minimum necessary to keep the feds at bay. The Buffalo local, they say, is such a well-known Cosa Nostra fortress--and so prominently featured in the Justice Department's original complaint--that union investigators had to act. Also, some of the ousted officials took with them large life-insurance policies with immediate cash value. Those officials also dropped a lawsuit against the international union that...
Currently the upstart brokerages account for less than 1% of all the 640 million shares traded daily, but they also account for nearly 100% of the anxiety that the big Wall Street firms are feeling as technology reduces the complex world of securities to its barest minimum--carrying out a transaction. Wall Street's role then becomes something on the order of checkout clerk. This comes at a time when more and more investors are buying stocks. At one point less than 5% of Americans owned stocks; now more than...
...from the dunes, are of extraordinary beauty. The movement of waves and light is reduced to the twinkling of black bars and crosses, shifts and erasures, within an oval field of view. In the end, this breaking and reassembly of a motif go so far that only the barest clues to its identity remain--whether it is a tree, a seascape or the walls of half-demolished Paris apartments, their pale pink and blue distemper preserved in delicately tinted planes. In the '20s, the severe lucidity of his grids abolished all metaphor and memory. But they would return...