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...only path to distinction. Before steeling yourself to its chains, make sure your enthusiasm reflects a will to commit to weeks where you will focus on nothing but esoteric puzzles that will surely bore your roommates. And if you truly are mad north be northwest, submit to an experience whose rewards go far beyond the honors degree...
MARIA RAMIREZ, 39, COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO: Teacher This year's Bilingual Teacher of the Year was born to migrant farm workers and grew up weeding crops throughout the Northwest. Ramirez went on to win a college scholarship, only to be stricken with a brain tumor in her junior year. After a long recovery she earned a master's degree. She now teaches Spanish to the staff in her school district, which is 47% Hispanic, as well as English to immigrants. "If you have a dream," she says, "work toward...
...THERE, TRYING TO GET IN touch with us, his message may well be received first in a quiet rural setting 30 miles northwest of Boston. There, atop a hill overlooking a snow-covered apple orchard and the frozen remnants of a pumpkin patch, a dish-shaped antenna, 84 ft. across, faces skyward, attuned to the murmurings of the cosmos...
...battle with a creditor? "I don't condone the misuse of company telephones, but suppose you call home with a marital or a financial problem. Clearly, you are in jeopardy if your employer knows something about those kinds of things," says Nan Otto, a union chief whose organization represents Northwest Airlines telephone-reservation operators. "It's the George Orwell kind of thing...
Furthermore, now that I have put down roots in the Pacific Northwest, I have been forced to rethink some of my long-held beliefs about population flows. It is evident to those of us who have grown to love and cherish this region that it is in danger of becoming much too crowded. Only a few days ago, as a visitor from the East, I would have described the vista I gaze at while writing this as a green landscape pleasantly dappled with humanity. Now that I live here, the same view stands revealed to me as a nightmare vision...