Word: molds
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...that struggle will be won or lost closer to home, within human beings themselves. To progress from nature's despoiler to its custodian, we must first redefine our place in -- not over -- nature, accept the role of resident rather than architect and resist the temptation technology affords us to mold a world responsive to our whims alone. Alaska, which once sanctioned the shooting of polar bears from the air, now dreams of creating a second Serengeti, fulfilling the fantasy of those who begrudge nature its sparseness and exquisite balance. This is more than bad biology, and it is sadly fitting...
...over to Natalie's house and we don't sit around and write songs together. So usually that's the way it used to work, but this time we tried to make it more of a workshop effort. We got together and we tried to break out of the mold, so we really spent a lot of time rehearsing in our rehearsal place, just playing in different keys, different time signatures, trying to make some goofy sounds and playing with some sample drums and just trying to break down the barriers that we probably...
...tell the truth, they seem to revel in the uncertainty. In the 19th century, Nikolai Gogol depicted Russia in his novel Dead Souls as a wildly careering troika rushing into the unknown. Now, after seven decades of forced efforts to mold the Russian mind to fit rigid communist orthodoxy, people have taken to the road again with such an exhilarating clatter of hooves that it sometimes seems as if the destination means nothing, movement is everything...
...PSYCHIC MOLD. Historians have long contended that a totalitarian system developed in Russia because its people were too servile to enjoy the blessings of democracy. Anyone who has watched as waves of debate roar through the chamber of the Congress of People's Deputies knows that this is simply not true. The Russian is more than a democrat; in his heart of hearts, he is an anarchist. Russia's rulers have lived in constant dread of the kind of spontaneous, popular uprisings that troubled the czarist era and set off the Bolshevik Revolution. After the communists came to power, others...
People think that "Asian-Americans are somehow all educated, all fairly wealthy, don't cause trouble," says Mark H. Kim '94, co-president of the Asian-American Association (AAA). "Most Asian-Americans don't fit thatmodel minority mold," Kim says...