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...years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that the belief that each individual could pursue a different path to the future is an idea that these officepeople invented, but which lay dormant between their time and ours.) The following then perhaps represents different temples assigned to the different possible futures. They could also represent only metaphysical spaces of belief. Or they could be descriptions of people and interests that still apply to us today...
...most maddening -- and frightening -- aspects of the AIDS epidemic is that no one knows how many people have been infected with the deadly virus. It can lie dormant in the body for years before producing symptoms. U.S. health officials have estimated that between 950,000 and 1.45 million Americans have picked up the virus, but that is based on spotty data. Admits a federal AIDS expert: "It's just hard to take those numbers seriously...
...white citizens of Keysville, Ga. (pop. 430, 70% black), did not seem to care that the local government had been dormant since the 1933 election, leaving the hamlet with no police or fire protection and no water or sewer lines. But after discovering that Keysville was still a legally incorporated entity, retired schoolteacher Emma Gresham, 64, decided to run for mayor to bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked...
Lawrence Sullivan, research associate with the John T. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, said the chaos in China may reawaken the country's dormant xenophobia. "Just because we establish relations with China doesn't mean it disappears," he said, adding that in times of crisis China often tries to close off its society from contact with the outside world...
Sean J. Bolser '89, the council member in charge of relations with E4D, said that even though the program has lain dormant this year, he believes E4D will gain strength with continued Council support...