Word: correcting
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Whether or not that theory is correct, an event of no less magnitude is taking place at this very moment, but this time its agent is man. The wholesale burning and cutting of forests in Brazil and other countries, as one major example, are destroying irreplaceable species every day. Says Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson: "The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs...
There is nothing down-home about Stewart's demonstrations, however. Her trendy chocolate truffles are decorated with pure -- therefore edible -- 24- karat gold leaf. Presentation is critical, whether it consists of sage leaves inserted under turkey skin "in the design of your choice" or "botanically correct" pastry leaves on a sweet-potato or pumpkin pie. Few details escape her attention, as when she insists on freshly ground white pepper in salmon and scallop timbales: "If you put black pepper in, people will see the big flakes and won't know exactly what it is." Says Dallas caterer Janet Showers: "There...
...student and what clothes and questions are appropriate for campus interviews. Some counselors even offer tips on how to outsmart the SAT (example: since each section's multiple-choice questions progress from easy to hard, an answer that looks obvious early in the test is more likely to be correct than one that looks obvious later). Such personalized attention is rare in most large high schools, where guidance counselors can easily be assigned 300 students or more. Says Jane McClure of Jackson & McClure Associates in San Francisco: "There isn't enough time for everyone...
Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who has himself turned to fiction in his recent work on civil rights law, recalls the discussion between Gates and Huggins: "Basically, they said that the great thrust of Afro-American history was to correct the record--to show that Black folk played a very important role," Bell says. "But the historical role tended to be a correction of the record, while the literary people can provide a continuous range of views about the record...
...turned out to be a fatal defect in its Pinto. Over the years the magazine has gradually increased its cultural coverage, a trend that will continue in its new incarnation. But the new Mother Jones will also try to appeal to its older readers by introducing columns about politically correct travel and even personal finance. Whereas it once called itself "a magazine for the rest of us," the new Mother Jones is less of an upstart, offering the subtitle People, Politics, and Other Passions. Says Publisher Don Hazen: "You'll see more familiar faces on the cover...