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Maybe it’s an ingrained cultural attitude à la Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic,” or maybe social pressures are demanding we maintain an ever-escalating lifestyle. Betrand Russell once commented that “one of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Perhaps we’re all just going crazy...
...report, entitled “Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century,” states that the United States must “prepare for [a] new wave of change” if it wants to maintain “its economic leadership” and “sustain its share of high technology jobs...
Another Oscar-winner, Jamie Foxx, also demonstrates that even victors have bills to pay—got to buy a few more cars to maintain that star lifestyle. Maybe those gigantic sunglasses that keep shading the eyes of his character, Lieutenant Henry Purcell, are Foxx’s way of channeling his past good fortune into a piece of acting that can only be described as mediocre. It’s as if his agent reminded him to “keep smiling and swaying, and maybe the audience will think Ray became a jet pilot...
...Chagi Hills, where the 1998 tests took place. Every Pakistani remembers seeing TV films of the hills' shuddering at the jolt from underground, like a camel shaking off a layer of dust. Russia, which has pledged to update its nuclear arsenal, knows that its bombs are what maintain its pretensions to be a great power. Neither Britain nor France will give up its nuclear weapons, at least partly because if either did, it would leave the other as the sole nuclear state in Western Europe...
There are no plans to alter the post.harvard forwarding service. But the fas.alumni addresses—which seemed like a good idea in 2003, according to HAA spokesman Andrew K. Tiedemann—later proved too expensive, costing Harvard more than $20 a month to maintain each three-megabyte account...