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Rather than passively accepting the prevailing communist outlook in Cambridge, we should encourage chains such as McDonald's and Taco protect the visual environment, these national chains need not erect their normal facades, as long as they serve good food. And then we can see just how popular The Tasty really...
...government in 1995, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer says the decree is not likely to change anything. "The Croatian government has in the past habit to promise a lot under Western pressure but not really do it. The way they have blocked Serbs in the past is to erect bureaucratic obstacles that are so huge it is almost impossible to return. For example, you have to prove you have relatives in Croatia, that you lived in Croatia before and that you owned property. This takes forever to do and for some people it's simply impossible...
...major causes of this gulf is the clannishness exhibited by adherents of the particular disciplines involved. In the manner of medieval guilds, these individual fields of study often seem to erect barriers to prevent anyone who is not actually concentrating in the subject from learning anything about it. Hence the two year long introductory track in Physics, and hence the seemingly incomprehensible post-Kantian meta-ethically relativist vocabulary of some literature classes. Obviously, every field has its own rhetoric and its own intellectual prerequisites, but in many cases these are probably more impenetrable than they need...
...Peterson, 71, says his grain-processing plant depends on farmers' shipping him product, so it could be a rough year. "But it's the people downtown who are ruined." He adds, parenthetically, that his $250,000 downtown house was destroyed. No flood insurance. His eyes fill as he stands erect and says, "We'll get through this. I'm full-blooded Norwegian...
Build it, and divinity will come. That's the hope of the Trinity Foundation, which is trying to erect the Templar, a pyramid of pink granite and obsidian with a 500-sq.-ft. base. It does not call itself a religion, but Trinity has certainly mapped out the hereafter. Communicating through the movement's founder, Norma Milanovich, the space being Kuthumi says that the Templar will transform Earth into a star and transport us to the divine realm of the Fifth Dimension...