Word: itemizes
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Forests, however, are just one item in Siberia's bulging portfolio of natural resources. Soviet exploitation managed to poison and degrade 35,000 sq. mi. of the vast republic, but that only scratched the surface of its mineral wealth. Bob Logan, an economist at the University of Alaska, has made trips to Yakutia to study the region's economic prospects, which he describes as "staggering." As much as 20% of the territory is known to have oil and gas deposits that could make it the Saudi Arabia of the north. The area is one of the world's leading sources...
...ITEM ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION of Jane Austen, I am said to be "miffed" at the public response to the thesis--supposedly bruited by me--that Austen might have been gay. In an essay on Austen in the London Review of Books, I discussed Austen's profound emotional bond with her sister, but I did not say that I thought she was homosexual in any self-conscious or active way or that she had sex with her sister. My remarks have been sensationalized by the British press, and I am afraid you have simply followed suit. TERRY CASTLE, Professor Department...
...both American and Japanese cuisine. "She tries to take into account Japanese taste," Hitomi Yoshida says appreciatively. "Less sugar, more salt, and not so much turkey or lamb. Just pork and beef and seafood." "Mariann widened my shopping choices," says Takai, who, having dutifully taken one sample of each item Raftery has described, is visibly strained by the weight of her shopping basket...
...decision to enlist professors prompted the Times and the Post to print 3,000-word excerpts of Unabomber prose, treating the document as an item in the news. That approach seems unlikely to mollify the terrorist--but it did provide the public with its first real exposure to his philosophy, which seems to prove a point made by Alexander Pope more than two centuries ago: "A little learning is a dangerous thing...
...individual item comes in and it's muchhigher than what I consider to be normal, I'llcall the professor," he said. "There comes a pointwhen faculty aren't going to pay the high prices.The ones [articles] that are most expensive theywon...