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...very different from the idyllic world of undergraduate life. These schools are preprofessional in nature. They seek to prepare their students for future careers as professors, lawyers or doctors. Concerns about employment and making oneself "marketable" to potential employers hang over the entire graduate school experience like a dark cloud...
...government based on democracy and continuous argument is cause for patriotism. Yet, he cautions, we must remember that though "no shame need endure forever no accomplishment merits excessive pride." Finally, "The Word Weavers/The World Makers" focuses on humans unique facility with language--notably, how language can shape, control and cloud our ideas...
...Everywhere on our tour, to a greater extent than most participants had expected, experiments with the free market are unleashing a surge of human energy. Hong Kong of all our stops has the most experience with free markets, the greatest per capita income, the least poverty. Yet the cloud over its essential freedoms is putting its future into question. I hope you keep tabs with us, in the pages of TIME, on the absorbing drama of these transformations...
...share Mr. Kelly's concern for a "dialogue with voters" and attempt to answer each letter I receive. If elected, I hope Mr. Kelly tries to follow my example. But if, as a candidate, Mr. Kelly's attempt to cloud the record is how he views maintaining a "dialogue with voters," then the CCA is in serious trouble. --Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. City Councillor
That's the textbook version at least. In practice, nature often kills hurricanes before they are born. For example, the intermittent warm-water current in the Pacific Ocean known as El Ni¤o generates westerly winds that reach halfway around the globe to disrupt cloud formations that might otherwise form hurricanes. In fact, says Colorado State's Gray, a major reason there have been so few hurricanes in recent years is that El Nino has continued on a more or less nonstop basis...