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...better or for worse, Suburbia is the U.S.'s grass-roots. In Suburbia live one-third of the nation, roughly 60 million people who represent every patch of democracy's hand-stitched quilt, every economic layer, every laboring and professional pursuit in the country. Suburbia is the nation's broadening young middle class, staking out its claim across the landscape, prospecting on a trial-and-error basis for the good way of life for itself and for the children that it produces with such rapidity. It is, as Social Scientist Max Lerner (America as a Civilization...
...York City, Butler and senior UNSCOM officials were not happy when they first read over the memorandum. "There were procedures in Kofi's agreement that UNSCOM has worked to get rid of," says one. Adding diplomats, along with a political adviser reporting to Annan, inserted another layer into the chain of command and could make the hands-on work of the expert inspectors more difficult. Republicans on Capitol Hill were more outspoken, with Senators Trent Lott, Jesse Helms and John Ashcroft in full denunciation. Even Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd was "very uneasy about this agreement...
...clutter in the HMC main office provided evidence of the hard work involved in putting together the simulation. A layer of scattered photocopies covered the floor, empty boxes were piled high into a mountain, and President Kristina L. Patterson '98 searched in vain for the second--and last--box of Tylenol, which turned out to be empty...
...Expressions does play a role in educating theHarvard community," said Edwards. "It's likeadding another layer of the cultural experience.We play a key role in that...
...history. Jay Noller, for example, a geomorphologist from Vanderbilt University, has been studying ancient sediments from Peru's northern desert, which is among the dryest spots on earth--except during El Nino years. Then and only then, torrential rains from a succession of storms compact surface dust into a layer of fine, red soil. From the age of the soils he has examined so far, Noller concludes that the El Nino cycle has been operating for at least 2 million years, and probably much longer...