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...Sounds reasonable, even predictable. America has always been a country in flux. But behind these seemingly innocuous figures there is controversy: What do these numbers - and their assigned values - really mean? Tukufu Zuberi, a sociology professor and demographer at the University of Pennsylvania's Population Studies Center, is also the author of the forthcoming book "Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie." Monday, Zuberi told TIME.com that he sees the 2000 census results not as an accurate indicator of our country at large, but rather as a call to action - and, Zuberi hopes, a precursor to a conversation about...
...Fragments speak in an eerily contemporary voice. Heraclitus anticipated Einstein in the realization that energy is the essence of matter: "All things change to fire,/ and fire exhausted/ falls back into things." The metaphor of Heraclitean fire posited an absolutely unstable world, in constant flux, consuming and creating, the alternation and reconciliation of day and night, waking and sleeping, life and death, wet and dry, good and evil. "What was cold soon warms,/ and warmth soon cools./ So moisture dries,/ and dry things drown." And: "The earth is melted/ into the sea/ by that same reckoning/ whereby the sea/ sinks...
With one policy in place and others in practice, who knows what--and how they know it--is constantly in flux...
...this game-within-the-game lies something essential about Survivor. Much ink has been spilled about the show's meaning since it conquered TV last summer. Yes, it's about the voyeuristic impulse. Yes, it's about greed, brains and stamina. Yes, it's about a television business in flux. But in a word, Survivor is about control...
...school's overall curriculum restructuring has left the entire school in a state of flux. But this is just the tip of the iceberg for the vo-tech program, which faces larger and more serious structural problems...