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...years, the College has required such small seminars for only one purpose: the teaching of expository writing. Knowing how to write effectively is certainly essential for success in nearly all professions, especially academia. But knowing how to detect ethical problems and how to reason through moral dilemmas is equally, if not more important to students' success in achieving both their own goals and those of society. (And this is particularly true at a College that prides itself on the graduates it's placed in influential positions in the public and private sectors...
...Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes began swarming over the area. Other planes with special infrared scanners, which could detect the warmth of a body moving on the ground, patrolled the mountains as well...
...occasion of her 25th Harvard-Radcliffereunion, my mother wrote about the turmoil of hertime here, then added: "and yet I remember thattime as one of shining optimism, of high energy;most of us felt we could change the world (anattitude I never detect in my children'sgeneration...
...laden with alarms, sirens, cameras and a medical station. Up to 100 soldiers at a time would train there, each repeatedly giving blood samples during their stay to ensure that they were not contaminated by the lethal agents within. These trainees, cloaked in protective overgarments and masks, would detect and swab a bleachlike solution over military gear spotted with deadly droplets. Each week 10 tons of toxic agents and neutralizers would be burned in a 2,200¡ furnace, spewing what the Army says are harmless emissions from a 75-ft. stack. The toxins to be used at the facility...
...look at it. And, as Barnum smugly notes in his autobiography, everyone was convinced that it was a genuine article, "nor is this to be wondered at, since, if it was a work of art, the monkey and fish were so nicely conjoined that no human eye could detect the point where the junction was formed." He goes on to describe the minute fish scales visible underneath the monkey hair; the hands, teeth and fingers, distinctly different from a monkey's; and the fins placed differently from a fish's. "The animal was an ugly, dried up, black-looking...