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Keeping in mind that the Chicago Bulls or Washington Wizards would gladly select with him with one of the top picks in this year's draft, and the fact that he would be turning down millions of dollars over the next two years, Jason Williams offers a stark contrast to many of today's young basketball stars...
...things for granted. But the computerization of the world, the globalized economy, the Internet, the mapping of the human genome, following on the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Empire, and the waning of the threat of nuclear world war - these things stand in such contrast to the previous lives of older Americans as to represent a metamorphosis, a passage to a new planet, also called Earth but unknowably different from what the elders knew when young...
...intention of presenting it to Congress, and sent his negotiators to Europe to try and pull the teeth of the agreement - to the point of arguing that the preponderance of forests in the U.S. meant that it shouldn't have to make any cuts in its output. By contrast, the Bush administration isn't even pretending that it's on the same page as the international community on the issue, making clear that the U.S. is not going to provide leadership in global efforts to curb global warming...
After the selection of Lawrence H. Summers to be Harvard's next President, professors on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) say they anticipate that a man used to the national stage would remain a high-profile figure during his stay in Massachusetts Hall, a sharp contrast to soft-spoken current President Neil L. Rudenstine...
...breast tissue compressed between two small plastic plates. But instead of transferring the X-ray image to film, digital mammograms translate the picture into bits of information that are stored on a computer. The radiologist can then manipulate the image by zooming in on problem areas or adjusting the contrast in bleak, featureless regions to single out suspicious growths...