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...early part of this century. Third, the State Legislature in Texas proposed, under Bush's tenure, to use public lands in order to allow private companies to make destination resorts. In short, much of Bush's perspective on environmentalism revolves around looking at the environment as a function of private property that can be bought and sold, rather than as a public tradition that is amongst America's greatest legacies...
...rising salaries are a function of the good economic times that are being experienced across the board, the sport of baseball included. The relative size of payrolls should not be the target of any potential solution imposed on the game...
...students perpetually worry about their exams and papers over winter break has nothing to do with the academic schedule. Undergraduates shouldn't give a second thought to tests over winter break; all the exams are at least two weeks away. When people do feel stressed, it is more a function of the ultra-competitive and ultra-stressful Harvard atmosphere than the schedule itself. If students put things in perspective, they would forget about exams over winter break and study when they got back to school...
...possible to spend hours analyzing the personalities of your nearest and dearest, as well as the host of other randoms who land on your list as "friends of friends of friends." A separate function indicates how compatible you are with everyone else on a scale from one to 100; these percentages seem to be completely capricious, but provide for endless entertainment. And when the excitement dies down a bit, there are plenty of other tests to take: the Purity Test, the Sex Test, the Bastard Test, etc. These come in varying degrees of raciness: one part of the Bitch test...
...uncertainty following this week's assassination. Eternal optimists are still talking about a mooted U.N. peacekeeping mission of 5,500 troops, although its deployment is about as likely as snowstorms in the Congo's lush rain forests. But whatever equilibrium currently exists in the Congo is a function of the balance of force between the armies of Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia and their local protégés, and the country's fate, as ever, will likely be settled beyond its borders...