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...college level but at the grammar and high school level. It is also where the foundation is established for assimilating more developed and sophisticated higher verbal and mathematical skills later on in college. And, it is also the area which businesses claim are where the greatest educational deficiencies persist...
Perhaps you are not a fashion fan. Though I am loathe to argue with anyone for whom blood bouncing on ice is a constant conversation piece, in this case I persist. We are all strongly encouraged to wear clothes and to change them with some frequency. Even hockey players must shed those dreadfully unflattering costumes and don street clothes. It is natural for the rookie fashion fan to feel a bit uncomfortable, especially when normal "human" shoes seem so horribly flat and slow. But anyone can learn to embrace fashion, or at least press cheeks in the appropriate affected...
...most difficult alternative to evaluate is extinction. Panhandlers could vanish entirely if no means exists for their sustenance. Many social planners would doubtlessly rush to embrace this possibility. Without cash and without a way to easily transfer material goods, beggars would have no good reason to persist in their appeals in the streets. Passers-by could only offer sympathy ("Brother, can you spare a smile...), or perhaps a hot-dog purchased electronically from a nearby vendor. The newspapers sold by homeless people would probably have sufficient capital to sell electronically through some central sidewalk sites, but even that form...
Sooner or later, though, it happens, or has throughout the more than 40 years that I have been writing about American business. Every decade has its characteristic folly, but the basic cause is the same: people persist in believing that what has happened in the recent past will go on happening into the indefinite future, even while the ground is shifting under their feet...
...other option is to turn the full force of Russian firepower and numerical superiority on Chechnya, resume the assault on Grozny and persist in it until the city is conquered, however brutal and bloody. In fact, at week's end Russian shells had set the presidential palace in Grozny ablaze and troops were reportedly massing for a new offensive -- this time to be led by specially trained spetsnaz forces rather than the hastily assembled and ill- prepared conscript units...