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...opportunistic to seek a profit from Diana's death. One Web publishing company is sending out e-mail solicitations to news Web sites ? including TIME Daily ? offering a custom made "Princess Diana Screen Saver" as a "multimedia tribute." That way her image can be plastered all over your monitor lest you forget her passing...
...every Harvard student should know before Commencement: the appreciation of good food is crucial to one's well-being. Ninety-eight percent of Harvard students participate in the house system. Thus, the cultivated minds that leave Harvard are often accompanied by jaded palates, palates that need nourishment and attention lest they become permanently ruined...
...Force will probably keep moving in the opposite direction, according to Northwestern University military sociologist Charles Moskos. The Air Force is the most civilianized (only 20% of its members fly planes) and feminized (26% of its new recruits are women) of the services, and its generals are notoriously sensitive lest their troops become indistinguishable from those of, say, a civilian corporation--and equally unfit to fight a real war. An Air Force colonel who served in the Persian Gulf and Somalia apprehensively contemplates the worst: "If each member is worrying about whether the officer next to him is getting special...
...every night before the adventurers retire to their tents, they'll put their food and other fragrant items like toothpaste in a sack and hang it on a tree--lest the king of the woodlands, the black bear, pay them a visit while they sleep...
...attending to one thing at a time, and for as long a time as will insure thoroughness--is obviously desirable and it is not a modern invention. Specialism in something else: it is a piece of etiquette which decrees that no specialist shall bother with the concerns of another, lest he be thought intruding and be shown up as ignorant.... [Specialism reduces] every art and mode of though to a preoccupation with the details of its making...