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...hectic workday it's refreshing to come home to a cat whose only concerns are "feed me," "love me," and then "leave me alone." It is a good formula for humans as well...
Many a used car and intellectual lemon have been sold with his formula. Lindberg does not label Poe a confidence man but a "New World technician." Yet tech man and con man are related by method. Writes Lindberg: "When the New World technician reduces complex process to duplicable parts, he provides the model by which the con man reduces another's gestures to imitable steps and dissects habits of belief so as to manipulate them...
...features are as austere and regular as a mathematical formula, his carriage as straight as the vertical axis in a Cartesian graph. Teacher John Saxon's eyes are the one variable in the equation: they burn with a visionary gleam. His vision is simple: a future in which the basics of algebra, the building blocks of all higher mathematics, become understandable to all American students...
...meeting last night, the assembly also supported a motion calling on Harvard to boycott all products made by Nestle, the Swiss confectionary corporation which manufactures a controversial infant formula marketed in many Third World nations...
...motion states that "the purchase of Nestle products by Harvard lends moral and financial support to the world's largest marketer of infant formula...