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...Samuel Gompers explained his union’s goal as an unending battle: “We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more.” Unfortunately, the end result is that as unions grab for an ever greater slice of the pie, the pie itself shrinks, leaving only crumbs for consumers, non-union workers, and the unemployed...
...snowflakes sandblasted us at hurricane force, we had to grab the railings to keep from being knocked over. "Isn't it great?" shouted Deb Burch, a science teacher in Andover, Mass., who graded papers between lectures and excursions. Then my hood blew off, and, figuring I had about 30 seconds before frostbite set in, I ducked back inside. None of the hearty folks still outside made a move to follow...
...knowledge (it is apparently required that one be drunk at 10 in the morning while viewing the collections), I shouted this question rather loudly.“No!” my friend would whisper back to me, slapping me upside the head as I reached down to grab a miniature low-fat cupcake from an outlying table. “You have thought, like, about 15 people were Anna Wintour today, and one of them was a man wearing a leopard trenchcoat! You may never see her! She is like the lost city of Atlantis or the director?...
...fashion world for inspiration on how to dress to impress and catch the eye of your hot TF. Check out the MFA’s Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006 to see how it’s done right. Students get a 10% discount at the gift shop, so grab a Dior scarf at entirely reasonable prices while you’re there...
...collaborated with research assistant Naomi S. Ginsberg and post-doctoral fellow Sean R. Garner on the study, matter is easier to manipulate than light, which implies many future applications of their discovery. When the light pulse is in a matter state between BECs, “we can grab it with a laser beam—put it on the shelf so to speak—and later let it back on its way and revive it in the second BEC,” Hau said. During this “shelved” period, the matter wave...