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...child, Brad was suffering from manifold problems at camp, many of which were as much due to nurture as to nature. He has been on Ritalin since age four, and has no recollection of a time when he was an individual apart from his disorder and his medication. When Brad's parents were notified of his misbehavior, they decided to increase the amount of medication he received...
...coordinators of the project, approximately 800 Harvard undergraduates--nearly an eighth of the total College populace--participated in the computerized search for the ultimate mate. On first inspection, the surprisingly strong level of interest seems to indicate a campus that is looking for a good time in the manifold ways that good times happen, be they technologically driven or otherwise. After all, the idea that 800 Harvard students are interested in going out seems breathtaking--and commendable in and of itself...
...benefits to that calendar are manifold. First, and most poignant at this moment, is that winter vacation can be a true vacation. As our schedule stands presently, we leave for vacation with the weight of finals looming over us. It is hard to relax fully when you have that unread Foucalt and the research for an unwritten tutorial paper--to say nothing of the CS assignment--staring at you from your open knapsack. During those moments when you are enjoying yourself, unfriendly images of dead theorists and live professors prance before your eyes. When you are working, you feel like...
...Slugger factory) Clinton's fluent, fervent idealism seemed to open a door--a sentimental one, perhaps--upon a sweeter, better side of America, the side full of promise: the quality he means to suggest when he talks about the Hope of his Arkansas childhood. Whatever his defects, which are manifold, he seems to have no violence in him, no hatred, but rather, a good heart. And beyond that, an immensely sophisticated and cunning political gift that may add up to greatness...
...Bodine Aluminum, Lloyd still ruefully recalls the day the new Troy plant produced the first intake manifold to be rejected--after three months and 60,000 defect-free parts. The lapse "was immediately followed by an eight-hour meeting the next day," says Lloyd, who has had to adjust to the Japanese penchant for such talkathons. "Before, if I wanted to do X, I could do X," Lloyd says, "but now we have to meet for three days. They want everyone to be on board." Bodine has cut its initial reject rate from 20% to less than 2%. Even better...