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Feaster's career achievements are nothing short of astounding. She is one of only four players to surpass the 1000-point and 500-rebound plateaus in their Harvard careers, and she accomplished the feat as a mere junior, reaching the latter mark during her sophomore campaign...
...Mexico has the fifth-largest land area in the U.S., and its culture is as expansive as its mountains and high plateaus. More than most states, it is a combination of high-profile extremes: trendy settlers are moving to the towns east of Santa Fe, living in the same kind of adobe buildings that housed the Pueblo Indians hundreds of years before Europeans set foot on this continent. Now artists share the land with the scientists at Los Alamos, and there is a larger percentage of Hispanic people there--38%--than in any other state. Politically, the state...
...process of learning, for both individuals and societies, usually comes in fits and starts. Throughout history bursts of knowledge--the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, the Industrial Revolution--have created a succession of new plateaus for human achievement. Medicine is now experiencing just such a surge of enlightenment and advance, producing a parade of breakthroughs so flabbergasting that they are routinely described as "revolutionary" or even, as Yale's Dr. Sherwin Nuland observes in this issue's opening piece, by the decidedly unscientific encomium of "miracle...
...most of these motel dwellers along the dry plateaus between the Dead Mountains and the Black Mountains, political violence is the last thing on their mind. The FBI discovered that when it arrested two drifters who had passed through Kingman and also Perry, Oklahoma, where McVeigh was arrested. Journalists converged on Kingman only to find that the two men spent weeks watching television, rarely emerging from their motel rooms except to buy beer and food. "I'm a drunk," explained a baffled Robert Jacks on Nightline, after the fbi finally released him. "I just pick up work -- or anything...
Over the years, bridge players in the ACBL, accumulate master points by winning tournaments. Eventually, they reach various plateaus and become life masters, bronze life master, silver life masters...