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...number of distinct categories, including dining hall appearance, food quality and food appearance, Quincy needed help...
...distinct Afrikaaner accent, de Klerk philosophized about extending the concept of individual rights to communities, to protect groups just as governments now protect individuals...
...vote on CRLS created a system--for a year--that randomly placed incoming ninth-graders into the high school's five "small school" learning communities. In the past, parents were able to select a "small school" (each with distinct teaching styles) for their children...
...haunts the machine of American abstraction--and the emotionless grids of LeWitt's work in particular. Not all abstraction, of course, some of which (most famously, Abstract Expressionism) is as lush as Frederic Church's skies or Marilyn Monroe's cleavage. But enough of it to make up a distinct subspecies of American abstraction, the big effusion of which came to be known, in the 1960s, as Minimal...
...divided into three groups: the partyers, who just want to have fun (and who sometimes become addicts); the shrinks and shamans, who believe drugs can expand your consciousness; and the scientists, who suspect that illegal drugs--or their chemical cousins--may have marketable legal uses. These groups are distinct but tightly linked: scientific research leads to new drugs, which shamans discover and use in their quests, which often turn out to be as much fun as spiritual. The use of drugs in party settings eventually leads to government crackdowns...