Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House boycotted the Assembly because the Assembly, the delegates claimed, was controlled by the CDU. CDU members pointed out that the party can barely control its own members, much less the Assembly...
...Syrian Jewish heritage and my immigrant grandparents. I had gone to public schools until tenth grade, and I knew intelligence is not confined to prep schools. I had always hated the socialite, tennis-playing atmosphere of my suburban town, and I fled to prep school as a more, not less, diverse place...
...often too busy to sulk. I took some more couses on Asia, and discovered that one actually made me think, as opposed to regurgitate. Eventually, I became an East Asian Studies major. While I still hated Stoughton, I discovered that laughing at the crazies made them less threatening, and I found two women there who eventually became my best friends. Ellen and I even worked out a cautious detente--she realized that I was not a preppie socialite and I began to see what was underneath her eccentricities...
...conspicuous that they are scarcely noticed. To begin with, air conditioning transformed the face of urban America by making possible those glassy, boxy, sealed-in skyscrapers on which the once humane geometries of places like San Francisco, Boston and Manhattan have been impaled. It has been indispensable, no less, to the functioning of sensitive advanced computers, whose high operating temperatures require that they be constantly cooled. Thus, in a very real way, air conditioning has made possible the ascendancy of computerized civilization. Its cooling protection has given rise not only to moon landings, space shuttles and Skylabs...
...bottled water is mineral. More than 700 brands of bottled water are sold in the U.S., but less than half of the waters can correctly be labeled "mineral," meaning that they once gushed directly from springs or had minerals added later. The other containers hold only ordinary water that has been purified by filtration or by chemicals. Mineral water runs in two varieties, still and effervescent. The bubbles are often achieved by the addition of carbon dioxide...