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...good place to start is obvious: course material. There’s a lot there, so you should make it through the hors d’oeuvres with no problems. Don’t forget to draw on your blockmates and friends here—introductions take up time, and sitting with acquaintances will help you out if you get into trouble later...
...Japanese Lessons Your coverage of Asia's endangered environment was very timely and relevant [Oct. 9]. Many regions of India are afflicted with contagious fevers like dengue. Hospitals are overflowing, and there is a shortage of proper medicines. It is very obvious that these diseases are the brood of environmental disaster in India. I see waste from factories dumped on the side of public roads. Authorities are corrupt and close their eyes to these illegal activities. There are no public toilets, people litter, and there is no proper management in the cities and villages to remove garbage. India...
...efforts for stability, are ineffective or, even worse, combatants in the country's escalating civil war. President George W. Bush says the U.S.'s goal is a unified and democratic Iraq, but we have no way to get there. As Americans search for answers, there is one obvious alternative: split Iraq into separate Kurdish, Sunni and Shi'ite states...
COLLINS: Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us. If it suits him to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution without posting obvious road signs to reveal his role in creation...
...obvious solution is to allow students to create their own educational plans. Yes there will be some abuse, as there was in Eliot’s day, but as Eliot put it, “I care no[t]… for the young men who have no capacity for an intellectual life.” Such people will always exist, and barring a change in the current pool of students, there will always be slack students. But even abuse is likely to be far less than the kind in Eliot’s day. For one thing...