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...students also say years of heavy use and neglect have taken their toll on the College's handful of public typewriters, leading some to purchase their own typewriters and forcing the rest to make...
...organization: "We have to keep starvation and infection from claiming as many victims as the hurricane did." When the final tally is in, the assertions of a staggering toll may well be borne out. Those whom the floodwaters did not kill face the problems of isolation, starvation, disease and neglect--the normal stuff of tragedy in Central America, made hundreds of times worse by Mitch's murderous rains...
Sometimes going away to college means leaving a hottie high school boyfriend. However, many girls decide they can persevere through those long distance relationships and keep their studly football-captain lover or their Leonardo DiCaprio-esque tortured-artist sweetheart. Some first-years decide to neglect their studies and stay on the phone all night long with their hometown baby to appease the ache in their heart and keep that love alive...
...capable of imparting information to ready-made A and B students. Of course, there are a few good teachers, but they cannot overcome the inept system we have. After nine years of watching my dyslexic son feel dumber and dumber, I am taking him out of a system of neglect and home-schooling him. DEBORAH CURTIN Long Beach...
...scholarship, Sen has repeatedly returned to a basic theme: even impoverished societies can improve the well-being of their least advantaged members. Societies that attend to the poorest of the poor can save their lives, promote their longevity and increase their opportunities through education and productive work. Societies that neglect the poor, on the other hand, may inadvertently allow millions to die of famine--even in the middle of an economic boom, as occurred during the great famine in Bengal, India, in 1943, the subject of Sen's most famous case study...