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Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee are not so sure. In most offset programs, the company making the investment does so in installments, as funds are needed, rather than in the kind of lump sum that Northrop sent. In addition, the committee wonders why Northrop sent the money to a Hong Kong account instead of directly to Seoul...
Works like Ouranos are infused with a sense of primal material under the stress of becoming, a mass raising itself up into consciousness even as gravity drags it down. You think of Genesis and the lump of clay just on the point of turning into Adam (the first sculpture of all). A little less thought, less work, and they would only be lumps. Tucker had taken a long look at Rodin, and it shows everywhere on his bronzes. The heavings and incrustations of their skins are, in fact, exquisitely organized to carry the eye around the form and leave...
...wouldn't want to repeat the '60s. Students today feel burdened by the '60s, that they have something to live up to. The Baby Boomers are like the pig in the python, they'll be a big lump at every stage...
...result has been confusion about the value of mammograms among both doctors and their women patients. Janet Gay Hamby of Thousand Oaks, Calif., was 44 and the mother of two teenagers when she discovered a lump in her breast two years ago. Two mammograms suggested that it was malignant, and when a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, Hamby underwent surgery and radiation treatments. Because cancer cells had invaded a lymph node, six months of grueling chemotherapy followed. She knows that the chance of a recurrence will remain high for about another year. Says Hamby: "My prognosis is good, but it would...
...Ndiaye and the 13 other African students, Harvard College can be lonely and frustrating. Although the continent has more than 30 countries, Westerners tend to lump all of them, from Angola to Zimbabwe into one cultural mass. African students say they sometimes face blatant ignorance of their home countries and Africa as a whole. Dorkus K. Mamboleo '91 says a classmate asked her which part of the United States had a town called Kenya. And Ndiaye says fellow students have asked him, "Do you live in a hut?" and "Do your cousins look like the people on TV from Ethiopia...