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Tell me I'm mortgaging my future on some childish whim. Tell me I'm being irresponsible and throwing all caution to the wind when I announce that I have no desire to go to work after graduation. Tell me I have no idea of the consequences that will result from my decision to blow off my future in favor of bumming around the world for no particular purpose...
...been sober and serious in recent years. The dominant figure of the late 1970s was not a Frenchman but the brilliant tailor Armani. In the early '80s the Japanese brought artistry to clothing, but very few chuckles. Lagerfeld cheered things up a bit, but Lacroix has thrown all caution -- some would add taste -- to the winds and opted for outright hilarity...
...goal is a society with fewer criminals, then firm judgments are even harder to draw. Criminology is a dispiriting science. Its practitioners commonly caution that no criminal sanction, no matter how strict, no matter how lenient, seems to have much impact on the crime rate. But prison does at least keep criminals off the street. Home confinement cannot guarantee that security. Some data, tentative and incomplete, do suggest, however, that felons placed on intensive probation are less likely to commit crimes again than those placed on traditional probation or sent to prison. Joan Petersilia, a Rand Corp. researcher, says...
Despite the new crackdown, Deng vows that China's economic reforms will continue. "Reform should be carried out in an orderly way," he said last week. "That means we must be bold and cautious." Caution is now assured, but whether the new climate will sustain boldness is another matter. It seems reasonable to assume that the reforms already under way will continue. But it appears unlikely that Deng's China will take any major steps forward for some time...
Weyerhaeuser believes there is a huge market for its products, but owners of plant nurseries caution that sales of living trees and flowers are not about to die off. Says Steve McGonigal, executive director of the Washington State Nurserymen's Association: "There will never be a substitute for a real plant...