Word: lande
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There exists a paradigm of the perfect economy, a place where a dismal scientist may even lay down his HP-19B calculator because analysis is superfluous in a land where supply and demand are calibrated, inflation is checked, growth steady, the workforce fully employed and the stock market bullish. For the moment, the U.S. may be that perfect economy, and that means the greatest challenge for Larry Summers, 44, the new nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, will be not to muck things...
...Talent House Private School, which serves elementary and middle school students in the Washington suburb of Fairfax, Va., character education starts early. How early? In the school's nursery, where parents can park future students as young as six weeks old before heading to work in their Land Rovers and Cherokees, the walls are festooned with posters boosting the values of good character. This month's value is Helpfulness. So as the caregivers diaper and burp their gurgling little charges, the infants stare up at a sign that reads THE SEEDS OF HELPFULNESS BLOOM EARLY...
...Department of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the White House?s hard-nosed Office of National Drug Policy, issued new guidelines that make it easier for researchers to obtain marijuana. The department said it will now provide legitimate scientists with top-grade marijuana grown on government land on a "cost-reimbursement basis." The new government rules are far less than some researchers might wish -- no funding accompanies the new policy, evidently -- and they are certainly much less than what Californians voted for in a 1996 referendum when they indicated they wanted to allow patients to use marijuana...
Newman is a VES concentrator interested in perm culture, the art of living on the land...
Newman is a VES concentrator interested in permaculture, the art of living on the land...