Word: mosses
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William K. Moss '99 of Leverett House, who will finish the program this year, says, "The Boston public schools could definitely use some great minds. There is a brain drain in our nation, and Harvard students could do a great deal to alleviate that...In general the great minds of our nation are drawn to more lucrative careers...Instead, I wish that students who obtain world class educations, like the one Harvard offers, would consider sharing their mental wealth with the next generation...
...answer might be the lack of respect the teaching profession is given throughout the nation. Moss points out, "Teaching is in a state of quasi-professionalism. Teachers are technically professionals with professional training, but they are not making professional salaries or earning professional respect." One of the best ways to change the attitudes of politicians who use teacher bashing as the main plank of their campaign platforms or of those who view teachers as unskilled laborers covered in chalk dust is to get into the classroom and improve the education of our nation's children. Harvard would do well...
DIED. JEFFREY MOSS, 56, Emmy-winning writer and composer who helped create Sesame Street's lovable fur balls, Coooookkiiieeeee! Monster and Oscar the Grouch; of cancer; in New York City...
...south with William Randolph Hearst's monument to the search for happiness, at San Simeon, and extends 90 miles north to Carmel. Earle has enlarged our purview to include the Monterey Bay area 12 miles farther northwest, so that we are able to look at Elkhorn Slough off Moss Landing and Monterey Canyon. This underwater chasm, as huge as the Grand Canyon, reaches out 45 nautical miles to the foot of the continental slope, and down 9,600 ft. At the top it ripples black, like a tarpaulin on a baseball field in the rain. Below, it contains life-forms...
...environmentalist in her cites the interdependency of sea and land. The redwoods in the region not only collect the moisture that comes to them as fog, but they also create a suitable habitat for other life. "Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss," she says. "If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city...