Word: folds
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...grown up. It wasn't difficult. While he was in hiding, his father was CEO of Commonwealth Edison, the big utility. Ayers the elder sat on every Establishment board in town--Northwestern, the Tribune Co., the Chicago Symphony. Ayers the younger and his wife were welcomed back into the fold...
...current measles outbreaks in the western U.S., and that's what happened in Nigeria in 2001, when religious and political leaders convinced parents that polio vaccines were dangerous and their kids should not receive them. Over the next six years, not only did Nigerian infection rates increase 30-fold, but the disease also broke free and ranged out to 10 other countries, many of which had previously been polio-free...
...counterbalance stands "an axis of democracy" - led, inevitably, by the U.S. - that includes the E.U., India and Japan. India's transformation is in many ways the most extraordinary, turning an underdeveloped former ally of Moscow into an emerging power firmly linked to the democratic fold. India's chief strategic concern is China, which has close ties to Pakistan and an expanding naval presence in the Indian Ocean. In response, India hosted a massive naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal in 2007, along with the U.S., Japan, Australia and Singapore. China, needless to say, was not pleased, and made formal...
...there's real hope on this front. It is possible to conceive of a system that brings the 47 million uninsured into the fold, improves medical outcomes and costs less than what we've got now. It's possible to conceive of because many other wealthy countries already have such systems. Figuring out exactly how to make universal health care work in the U.S. is a matter better left to its own lengthy magazine article. But if you're looking for big economic change from the next Administration, this is the form it's most likely to take...
...prepared to arrive on the campus that would forever change my life.I knew it was going to be a long drive, but I also knew that the clothes I wore sitting driver’s side would be the first impression I made at Harvard. Never one to fold at the demands of fashion, I carefully chose an outfit both comfortable and indicative of my sense of style: an orange-stripped polo, army-green cargo pants, and light-caramel Timberland boots. Looking back at my high school wardrobe, I am stunned at the many phases I’ve gone...