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...they need to survive what the Financial Aid office calls "our blustery New England winters." The letter to applicants recommends various items of clothing, including waterproof boots, a hat, earmuffs and a scarf. But for those of us who don't have a pressing financial need, the College offers precious little to help through our first winter of black ice, wind chill factors and rivers that freeze...
...people, assembled by the Gore camp. They arrived with the lion's share of them, 41%, undecided. They left with 53% of the room for the Vice President. The Gore staff felt so good about its candidate's performance in the debate that it wants to pour precious advertising dollars into rebroadcasting it on cable channels in battleground states...
...wall. It is held together by its own repeating patterns, its kaleidoscopic structure, yet is full of a necessary and freeing space. Across the room, Emily Cheng's oil-on-canvas "Silent Elaborations" overtly draws the eye to its center. It's a two-dimensional theater, drapery framing the precious vision of a highly ornate object, the jeweled product of careful work...
...been a longstanding belief that the next big wars will not be fought over oil, but rather over an even more precious substance: water. A recent study by the World Resource Institute (WRI) states that global water consumption rose sixfold in the first half of the last decade--a rate more than twice as high as human population growth in the same time period...
...uninitiated, such objects may look like cowpats, but their roughness has always made them precious to the Japanese connoisseur. Koetsu once sold his house to raise the money--30 gold coins--for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy. Later he came to see the ownership of such exalted things as "a nuisance" and the antiquarian enthusiasms they aroused as irrelevant: better to make them for oneself...