Word: beneath
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...debate." The country desperately needs to rebuild its economy. But any liberalization could lead to a loss of the absolute political control enjoyed by Kim. The dilemma is evident during a visit to the Kumsung Educational Institute. Boys recruited from around the country are learning English and computer skills beneath portraits of Kim and his father, state founder Kim Il Sung. In one class, students are studying Microsoft PowerPoint on Taiwanese computers, and 10-year-old Chun In Hyo shyly tells a visitor: "I will be a scientist." Down the hall, an older student poring over a Cambridge English text...
...most succumb to the temptation to cash out their 401(k)s and spend the money, a practice hardly reflective of a serious retirement system. Today $2 trillion is invested in those accounts. But to understand why the 401(k) is no substitute for a defined-benefit pension, look beneath that big number. Earlier this year the airwaves crackled with announcements that the value of the average 401(k) had climbed to $61,000 in 2004. Noticeably absent from many accounts was any reference to the median value, a more accurate indicator of the health of America's retirement system...
...much of Alaska. With oil, as with textiles, domestic production peaked because others began producing the same stuff cheaper, while we contrived to make our production more expensive. Today Alaska contains 18 billion bbl. of off-limits crude. We've embargoed at least an additional 30 billion bbl. beneath our coastal waters. And we could fuel many of our heavy trucks and delivery vehicles for a decade with the 20 billion bbl. worth of natural gas we've placed off limits in federal Rocky Mountain lands...
...prolific one. Born in 1914, he published only one novel, Invisible Man, before his death in 1994. Flying Home represents a welcome addition to his oeuvre. Of the 13 stories in Flying Home, six were unpublished during Ellison's lifetime--they were found, after his death, in a box beneath his dining-room table...
...evil ancient spirit murders stranded wedding guests on an abandoned farm beneath the Halloween moon. A biotechnological food-industry conspiracy implicates global agricultural giants and the United States government in a manipulative invasion of the American dinner plate. While at first glance these two themes have nothing in common, they describe the two films showing tonight at the Brattle Theatre. It is this meditated oddball variety that makes the Brattle unique; no one could expect the high-minded Harvard Film Archives (HFA) or the corporately operated Kendall Cinema to air “The Future of Food?...