Word: chasms
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...that distant vista would be like to experience for ourselves, but we must focus on the here and now, and how that may be able to help us in the immediate future, forever deferring the mountain view for the shrubs we are perched among. We fail to see the chasm that divides us from those views. In other words, by focusing so harshly on the immediate future and dreaming vaguely of the future, we fail to recognize that we can't get there from here...
...detractors, including some parents and students in Philadelphia, who turn the argument on its head, believing that enforcement of a dress code will actually distract from the business of learning. And then there are those education analysts who have raised fears that uniforms could in fact accentuate the chasm between the haves and the have-nots. "It's very hard, especially in poor areas, to mandate school uniforms because some families simply cannot afford the required clothes," says TIME education writer Jodie Morse. With an eye on parity, some districts offer concessions to students...
...easy to see why these figures have many governments, development agencies and human-rights organizations worrying about a growing "digital divide" in Latin America between those with money and access to information and those with neither. To span that chasm, Latin governments are embarked on a number of initiatives that will help citizens join the wired world. Among them is a project funded by the Mexican state of Aguascalientes and the Inter-American Development Bank that placed computers in all public secondary schools in the state and wired more than half of them to the World Wide...
...There is a chasm between health people and environmental health," said Richard Jackson, director of the government's National Center for Environmental Health. "The connections have got to start at a local level...
...reached across the chasm of Protestants and Catholics to seek peace," Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye said while introducing Trimble...