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...along with this incredible burgeoning linguistic aptitude comes a overwhelming fascination with the external world, as if while attempting to perfect her communication skills she had kept a mental list of all the puzzling and troubling circumstances around her. Now that the communicative barrier has been mostly demolished, these queries and quandaries come bursting forth to couple with the cold-fusion energy of most toddlers, transforming peevish monosyllabic terrible-twos into an inquisitive whirling dervishes, ready to drink in the world with one great gulp...
...Liberal legislators and activists worry that the proposal will weaken the church-state divide, and that by providing certain groups with federal funds, the government will signal tacit federal approval - or disapproval - of certain religions or religious programs. Conservatives, on the other hand, argue in favor of that same barrier because they fear the constitutional restrictions placed on government involvement in religious activities will force religious groups to water down their message in order to receive much-needed funding...
...want to break down the perceived barrier between the secular and the spiritual. Everything should be to the glory of God," Grizzle says. "It is hopelessly myopic to think that it only matters to Jesus what we do on Sunday...
...several months for the Harvard network. Back in September, extremely high traffic brought the network to a grinding halt. Earlier this month, Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) restricted outbound network traffic because of the extremely high load. Now HASCS is contemplating the creation of a firewall, a barrier that would prevent outside computers from accessing data on student computers. The firewall might help reduce the traffic that has been slowing and destabilizing the network for months, but it is vital that any firewall be designed to give students the maximum degree of flexibility in their network...
Plants said the council sees limiting keycard access as an "unnecessary barrier" to inter-House interaction...