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McLauglin, a white student initially deniedadmission by Boston Latin, claimed blacks andHispanics with lower test scores and grades hadbeen admitted instead of her to fill racialquotas. The University of California v.Bakke decision had deemed racial quotasunconstitutional...
Member at Large Eric D. Werner '00 says there is a niche the fraternity can fill...
Many people in rural America, just getting by, still depend on hunting for meat to fill the freezer. But mostly the country buys its meat in cling-wrap packages at Safeway and Winn-Dixie. "We've lost our connection to the land and the outside world," says Jerry DeBin, Alabama's coordinator of conservation education. "Most people don't even notice which way the wind is blowing today. The squirrel or deer may be eating more today because a change in the weather is coming, but we don't pay attention to these things anymore...
...danger for the people who promote all the products is that advertising runs the risk of overrunning its environment. Like animals who graze their savannas to stubble and humans who fill their cities to bursting, ads may simply exhaust the very resource that keeps them alive. That resource, in this case, is the goodwill of consumers. As any endangered animal can attest, what follows is extinction. For the dodo, that's a tragedy. For the banana sticker, it would be another thing entirely...
...typical home office: a PC wired to an Internet connection that stays on while she stays home. Sophisticated telephones; the digital equivalents of Swiss Army knives that fax, copy and scan (but don't do your laundry yet); and videoconferencing equipment, like the QuickCam Pro, all fill out the small office/home office (SOHO) market that has become hugely affordable...