Word: nearly
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However, this near-sighted approach neglects the very qualities of a "nebulous" conception of blocking. Each student's unique first-year experience produces an infinitely diverse array of personal bonds. Reducing any particular network of friendships to mere factors of size of intimacy ignores their individual richness and worth. It is up to each individual student--through personal introspection and open dialogue--to determine the ideal blocking group. The end result might happen to be a large, small, tight-knit or diffuse group. It could mean a group that encapsulates one's entire social circle or one that exists solely...
...people would approve aggression against my country, Yugoslavia, if they had the right information about what's going on here. How can one explain dropping bombs near schools and hospitals or killing an old man in his cottage in the middle of nowhere? Who will build new houses for the ethnic Albanians and Serbs or give them new jobs in a poor country such as Yugoslavia? I fought hard against the Milosevic regime for years, and I still strongly believe in democracy. Unfortunately, the bombs NATO drops on my country are striking the Serbian democratic movement. VLADIMIR STAJIC Zemun, Yugoslavia...
...shoebox, with an entry hole in front. So far, Alon and his colleagues in Operation Kestrel have put up 40 boxes in Jerusalem and 50 in Haifa. "The kestrels are dependent on people," says Alon, who started bird watching as a 13-year-old growing up on a kibbutz near Nazareth, and oversees 16 other conservation programs. "We had eight pairs breeding in our boxes last year. We can't say yet that we've saved them from extinction, but we can say the population is increasing rather than decreasing." A tiny camera inside one of the Jerusalem boxes shoots...
...into Kosovo through the snow-swept mountains of northern Albania. Last week hundreds of fighters attacked and captured a small, six-hut Serbian border post at Kosare and swept through a nearby Serbian army barracks. The goal, commanders said, was to reach as many as 20,000 refugees stranded near the border and create a bridgehead that would allow the rebel army to set up bases inside Kosovo. But the bloody victory was a reminder that, Western hopes notwithstanding, the K.L.A. is still woefully short of experience...
...road to Kosare rises along a nearly impassable dirt track rutted by farm tractors pulling loads of ammunition up the slopes. From the road it is easy to spot Serb-held towns in the valley below, many marked by rising columns of smoke. Ammunition boxes are stacked in small crevices. Soldiers huddle near fires made from the empty crates. Serbian shells scream continuously, reverberating through the canyons. Soldiers, some in uniform, others in track suits, carry everything from bolt-action carbines to Kalashnikovs. There are two questions: Where is the commander, and where are the Serbs...