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...What really gets to a Soviet in America is not the fancy clothes or mammoth cars. It's the supermarkets. You can go crazy at the start, the middle and the end. There are meat counters 200 to 300 yards long, with sausages as plentiful as raindrops, so many you keep bumping into them. That's the moment when Soviet tourists get weak at the knees and begin to feel queasy, but they refuse offers to be helped out for a breath of fresh air. The fruit-and- vegetable section is personally devastating. Avocados, papayas, kiwis, some kind of citrus...
...confident. They say schools cannot lead the way to reform, they can only reflect society, not shape it. Some of the harshest criticism comes from Uchitelskaya Gazeta, a pro-reform teachers' newspaper that regularly berates the State Committee for Public Education and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Those two mammoth bureaucracies oversee the nation's school system and train its 4 million teachers. Reformers believe that both block educators eager to try more innovative methods...
Dorrington breezed through the first four innings, facing the minimum 12 batters without allowing a hit. But after walking the leadoff hitter in the fifth, the junior right-hander dished up a mammoth home run to Eagle first baseman Lance Wallin, spoiling his shutout and knotting the score...
...here again, updated and expanded, a mammoth historical progress report on a language with a vocabulary, the world's largest, that grows by an estimated 450 words a year. The second edition, in 20 volumes, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, will be officially unveiled at celebrations in London next week. It is a statistician's dream. It contains 21,728 pages and defines 616,500 words and terms, using nearly 60 million words (34% more than the first OED) to do so; it also costs...
...Today was a good showing of where we stand. We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stamina of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs. In a nutshell, we're ready for Yale...