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...Some people lament that young people today don't share the idealism of students in the 1980s. But while my generation dreamed lofty goals, they had little foundation. We were like a tall flower on a thin stem. Faced with armed resistance in 1989, the students in Beijing were cut down with tragic ease. Today's young people are more practical, and because of that I am optimistic about their chances of promoting fundamental change. They aren't ready to march in the streets, but they are equally unwilling to be told what they can or can't read...
...financial terms the trade would leave neither country better off. But it would allow China, which is fast coming to terms with the fact that it has to do something about its pollution and emission levels, to truthfully tell its domestic audience that it is cutting them but that the U.S. is compensating it to do so. It would allow the U.S. to argue, also truthfully, that the cost of paying China to cut its emissions is minimal. This solution allows both sides to get what they want while ensuring cuts. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
There's no director's cut that I need to have. Critics quite legitimately point out which battles we didn't cover and which generals we didn't talk about. But we cannot be the telephone book. We have to find some way to tell a complex story...
...leaning toward obesity. Then Greg found out he was prediabetic. So now the Gilliams devote some of the time they used to spend in front of the TV to washing and slicing fruits and vegetables as on-the-go snacks for the next day. "If I buy a cantaloupe, cut it up and bag the pieces, we'll eat it. Otherwise, it just sits in the fridge," says Chris. To make meal prep more efficient, after every trip to the grocery store, the family creates a menu of the week's options by putting them on Post...
...just had my sights on the endzone, and I was going to get there one way or another,” Takamura said. “I saw [Lum] coming at me, and he had a great angle. So I felt like I had room to cut it back—normally, we’re taught not to cut it back, but I had the room to. Once I saw him slide, I knew...