Word: minis
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...borders; all the while, it is responding to rockets fired from Gaza with military strikes. But the sum total of all of these pressures may spell the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, leaving Israel living alongside a chaotic political entity not altogether unlike Somalia: awash with guns, broken into mini-fiefdoms ruled by unstable coalitions of warlords, and fertile soil for al-Qaeda...
...hospitality management at New York City College of Technology. Her answer: the Dinner Party Project. Jordan helped create the school-based program for fifth- through seventh-graders five years ago to teach students all about throwing the perfect dinner party. Its goal is not to turn the kids into mini Martha Stewarts. Instead, it aims to get kids involved and excited about the possibilities of sharing a meal. "We felt that youngsters had lost the connection to food," says Jordan, who founded Spoons Across America, a nonprofit organization that teaches kids about cooking and nutrition. "Part of that was because...
...course has an overarching theme, professors say.“We’re telling a story, we’re telling the same story, but just telling different parts of it,” Hartl says.Fixsen says one team-taught class shouldn’t be three mini courses. He and his colleagues “make sure students are hearing a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and not three middles or three beginnings.”Transitions and overlaps—what Bol calls “points of mutual reference?...
...following of millions of fans, who have created blogs, message boards, and websites discussing its references to religion and philosophy.The challenge is striking a balance between creating mystery and not frustrating viewers, says Cuse, who recently returned to his home in California from a three-week writers’ mini-camp in Hawaii, the location of the show’s set, where he mapped out the show’s third season with other writers and producers.COLLEGE DAYSFriends say that even as an undergraduate at Harvard, Cuse was infectiously energetic and ambitious. “He was always exuding...
...easy running as a Democrat. There are litmus-test land mines in every audience. At the Montgomery County meeting, a local surgeon named William Epstein showed me his list: drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, abortion, gay marriage. "I'm afraid he's a mini-Republican," Epstein said at first. But later, after asking the candidate directly, he amended his judgment: "He answered me straight and passed every one of my tests." Webb is an outdoorsy hunting-and-fishing environmentalist. He is pro-choice, pro-gay rights. He has expressed nuanced reservations about affirmative action and women in combat...