Word: chunks
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...earn lots of money," says Zhou Jun, a Shanghai entrepreneur who runs a solar-heating company and converted to Tibetan Buddhism in 2004. "But now after studying Buddhism, I realize there is much more to life, and I want to share that lesson with everyone." Zhou now donates a chunk of his earnings to build new Tibetan Buddhist temples in western China, and has imparted the Buddha's teachings to his business partners. Tempering a capitalist impulse with a quest for inner peace jibes with the Chinese government's own shift from a development model based mainly on high...
...which immediately followed Winthrop Stein Club, wisely followed the cardinal rule of comedy: always provide alcohol to the audience.An estimated 100 people turned out to support Ingber, who is happy with the turnout.“Many of them were my friends who I personally invited, but a substantial chunk of the audience were people who heard about a comedy show and decided just to come check it out,” he writes in an email.So after receiving some tips from the pros, let me try again.So what’s the deal with that Annenberg food? I mean...
...conservative made a mistake not in arguing that students should take a course in ancient Greece, read Plato, or learn a foreign language. These are suggestions so obviously beneficial as to be immune from all but the most unhinged rants. Where Brooks stumbled is somewhere a large chunk of academia also seems to be stumbling: study abroad. The idea of “study abroad” is similar to those tired suggestions of “interdisciplinary” courses or courses in the “sciences” that are often bandied about as a panacea...
...Christine DeLay: There was QUITE a chunk of that Chris Matthews' show...
...graduating in six instead of five with most of my classmates, is that I'm writing a second novel. The first one was really kind of crammed in around the corners of my studies and then my lab work. The second one I needed to take this chunk of time to work...