Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hearing a proposal that airlines and airports take special measures to educate passengers about the 1994 sex-tourism law, which prohibits Americans from traveling abroad for sex with minors. It is punishable by 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. "We are weeding out the hard-core child molesters who get on planes, spend thousands of dollars and rape these children," says Jim Nagle, the senior U.S. customs agent investigating sex tourism. "Are we being the world's sex police? No. But if you're an American who is violating this law, we will enforce...
Peeling away the layers of mediahype, we come to the core of Valparaiso: a story about a man who, having a meaningless life with a largely negative impact on those around him turns to the media in an attempt at salvation. His wife, not strong enough to effect change for herself, jumps on board. Michael Majeski uses the media just as much as the media uses...
...media is an insatiable god: after every detail of his life has been brought to life, Delfina turns on him, reading between the lines of his story, in the hope of bringing to light an even bigger story, but there's no glory to be found at the core of Michael Majeski's story, just a broken life. Valparaiso is, at its heart, a Death of a Salesman for a radically changed world. While the world has changed, people have not: the existential questions that Willy Loman could not solve remain unanswered...
...many years now after the birth of the program for it not to have reached an acceptable steady-state size," Lewis wrote. "I am not sure what the right incentive or other accommodation would be to increase the number, but I agree that the dearth of Core courses is a very serious issue for students...
...Core will be expanding next year through the new Quantitative Reasoning (QR) core, required of all members of the class of 2003. Knowles wrote that seven "seductive" courses in the new area have already been approved--in topics like algorithms and data structures, demography and number theory...