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...between state; summer coupled with adolescence doubly so. Whitehead stirs up a few deep currents - the escalating tension between Benji's parents, notably - but for the most part, he adopts Benji's strategy of never venturing too far into rough surf ("Sand beneath my feet, that was my rule"), content to float with his character on the surface...
...talk to them, instead of asking, “Was it a genocide?”, we should simply ask, “What happened?” That way, instead of feeling the pressure to shape such devastating experiences to a label, we can let the content of history speak for itself...
...operation entails a fairly high use of resources—since clean rooms must be maintained every day—her establishments make efforts to be Earth-friendly by composting leftover food; offering disposable, compostable, and biodegradable plates and cups; and using paper products made from 100 percent recycled content...
...access to the Internet. On April 21, UNESCO and the Library of Congress officially unveiled its $60 million joint effort to do just that. With funding from sources including King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia and the Carnegie Corporation in New York, more than two dozen institutions contributed content that covers nearly 200 countries. The result is the World Digital Library: a compendium of some 1,200 high-resolution digitized files that allows users to zoom in on ancient documents and archival photographs. The Library also contains a sophisticated search tool that allows users to browse by keywords, time period...
...past few years are anything to go by, the successful candidate will help MI5 grapple with terrorism, work to stymie the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and sharpen its surveillance and counter-intelligence efforts. "There's an enormous amount of scientific content in this role," Professor John Beddington, the government's chief scientific adviser, told the BBC. On top of that, "it will involve a sort of future gazing to see where technology will be taking us in a year...