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...girl this summer who goes to the University of Vermont. She loves animals and is studying to be a veterinarian or a zookeeper. She is also learning sign language to supplement what she knows will be a meager salary. I don't suppose too many Harvard freshmen come in hoping to land a great zookeeping job after four years. That dream is far too small to bear the Harvard insignia. We have to think bigger and better, to reach for the stars. But how can I reach for something that I can't even identify? How will I know that...
...have little that might be called history concerning the man. There is a meager handful of unrevealing allusions to his existence in early Roman and Jewish sources. The recently recovered remains of a modest house in Capernaum give strong signs of being Peter's residence, which was apparently Jesus' Galilean headquarters. Ongoing excavations in Galilee clarify the picture of the small-town world in which he learned the builder's trade and acquired his deep knowledge of the Jewish scriptures. Modern studies have confirmed the good possibility that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem covers the site...
...says Eric Raymond, a Linux evangelist. Linux runs on nearly a third of all servers, and according to Raymond, it will soon make similar inroads in the consumer market. His reasoning: as computer prices spiral downward, the price PC manufacturers pay to license Windows grows proportionately, cutting into their meager margins. PC makers will "start defecting en masse to Linux," Raymond predicts, "because they can no longer make money partnered with Microsoft...
Some students have taken their meager earnings and walked away (www.datesite.com), some never really made it past the first round (www.collegebeans.com), and some are still playing (www.crimson-solutions.com). And unlike the television counterpart, this show has seen big winners (www.microsoft.com). No telephone call necessary. All you need is a $75 and a domain name...
...Citing meager 40 to 60 percent voter participation rates from leftist groups, Steinem added, "We're not doing...