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...Conservationists expectedly take a view quite different from that of the timber folk and the myriad locals who see the roadless lands plan as clueless Washington authoritarianism shoved down the throats of the people who know what's really going...
...mean to give the impression that college students can, or should, stay kids forever--high school is over for all of us, to the chagrin of some and to the joy of others. Indeed, it is not the myriad internships and jobs themselves that are the culprits. They truly are great opportunities that help students learn more about the world and gain deeper insight into a specific field...
...himself up mountains using only his quadriceps and a bicycle. Most Americans would get winded driving these peaks, for Pete's sake. But instead of following Armstrong and his teammates over the cragged peaks of Europe, we're treated to ad nauseam stories about Tiger Woods, whose accomplishments are myriad, to be sure, but whose claim to greatness lies more with skill and mental determination rather than those combined with true athletic prowess...
Certainly, it is a very cool concept, one that founder Jay Walker predicts will eventually eliminate price-tag shopping. Never mind that fixed pricing in one form or another has been around since the time of Xerxes for a reason: people like it. As Walker points out, though, myriad products--from FedEx shipping, where rates increase with the speed of delivery, to groceries bought with coupons--fall into the variable-price category. Thus Walker argues that he is merely pushing an already flexible system to its logical extreme...
Feng shui, for those who have somehow missed its myriad references in pop culture, means wind and water in Chinese. The 3,500-year-old system, once used only by China's Emperor, is based on the idea that landscapes, buildings and even whole cities have hidden zones of energy (qi), which can be manipulated by the shape, size and color of a structure as well as its entrances. A building that allows qi to flow freely is said to have good feng shui, which brings prosperity and success...