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There is a great deal to be said for this proposal. To be sure, it does not include requirements in moral or quantitative reasoning, as does the current version of the Core. But it does represent very well the transition we are making to a more fluid understanding of how knowledge is structured and how students might be encouraged to learn...
...land in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales is Southern California in the year 2008. The U.S. is under a kind of martial law, because, the narrator says, "After the nuclear attacks on Texas, things got real complicated." The government is trying to harness a hydrokinetic energy called "fluid karma." The country's rebels include prostitutes, arms dealers and various flaky types...
...Purpose Cleaner, with ingredients like "surfactant (unspecified)." With another Mr. Clean ingredient, the MSDS informed me that there is "no information about the [product's] potential for carcinogenicity." I was able to follow the trail of one chemical, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, which evidently appears in everything from brake fluid to hair dye. Although the MSDS measures workplace exposure, which can be far greater than the amount one would encounter at home, the Hazardous Substances Data Bank toxnet.nlm.nih.gov warned that "results of limited repeated dose oral work reported suggests that material may be rather toxic when inhaled or absorbed through...
American fiction is in a satirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...cross-stage seating that typically allows the first and second violins to enhance the excitement of the piece by exchanging musical barbs was not highly effective due to a slightly anemic second violin section. Demirjian’s conducting was fluid and varied, well capturing the tangled emotions of the overture...