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...often it is taken for granted that "success" means beating others to the top of our chosen field--seldom, if ever, is success seen as raising good kids. My friends outlined, step-by-step, how they wanted their lives to proceed after graduation. None included a family in that picture. That shocked me. I grew up believing the most important thing any two people can do is raise children. As a friend recently put it, "to love is to live," and what better way to love than to raise children...
...size of an abnormally large cat and held in the lap similarly. These ballads, with names like "My thoughts are winged with hope" and "Watkin's Ale" combined with the petite harp to bring to mind images of wandering minstrels. The last piece, "Amarilli," was an effective and thoughtfully chosen ending, as it combined the Italian and English traditions, drawing together the first and second halves of the concert...
...people might feel "depressed" when they read something like The Selfish Gene, not because the book is innately pessimistic, but because of their innate misconceptions that every scientific theory debunks another one of life's mysteries. Of course, these misconceptions do not apply universally. Students who have chosen to study science need no persuasion from Dawkins to see the wonders of molecules and elegance of chemical reactions. But Dawkins uses Unweaving the Rainbow to try to convince the rest of the population. Dawkins contends that science and humanities are not antagonistic, but rather complementary, forces which both find truth...
Beyond winning the arts and literature category of the ThinkQuest competition, "Totally Tessellated" was chosen as a Yahoo! Pick of the Week for the week of September 28, 1998. Science also featured the site in its "NetWatch" columnon October 23 and included a tessellation byEscher from the site...
Richard Meier concluded his remarks for the evening by discussing the Getty Center. As is the case for most contemporary architectural projects, Meier had to win a competition to be chosen. When the tedious 14-year project began, the pool consisted of 100 architects. This was narrowed to 30 then to three and then...