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...Rubbens, 34, an environmental consultant in London who left the Netherlands after high school, speaks five European languages and says she feels more European than Dutch. "I notice as I start to adjust somewhere that I speak to myself in the language of that place." Rubbens belongs to a distinct class of young Europeans: mobile, multilingual professionals who live, work and play outside their native countries and who bounce across borders - for business or pleasure. To be sure, the advent of such transplants is far from widespread: in 1999, fewer than 2% of E.U. citizens aged 21 to 35 worked...
This clinical view of MCI deals with distinct changes in forgetfulness over a period of a year or two--changes that can be verified with psychological testing. "People start at different points," says Neil Buckholtz, chief of the dementias branch at the National Institute on Aging. "Everybody forgets where they put their keys. But if you forget what keys are for, that could be a concern...
...They manage, however, to keep the pressures of the field distinct from everyday life...
...freshmen do have a distinct advantage in the support that they receive both on and off the field from an accomplished group of veterans. Allard will rotate between her large selection of players to fine-tune her lineup before the Ivy season begins...
...religious arguments on campus have been somewhat easier to address, having been generally free of distinct premises or clear chains of reasoning. Homosexuality has been described as "unnatural," with procreation the natural purpose of sex. How exactly one determines the "purpose" of an act, or how one assigns that purpose moral weight (outside of the naturalistic fallacy that whatever is, is good) is difficult to discern. Even harder is how to justify in this context the rhythm method or sex with an infertile spouse; to do so, conservatives have fallen back on ennobling heterosexuality per se, calling it a "unique...