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...teens are a precious resource," he said. "These programs don't reach all 1,800 students in our high schools, but the 487 students who go to the centers are a group that we could absolutely assist in the most significant wonderful ways...
America has a rare and precious asset in Gates. He is a man whose work improves people's lives, making our working hours more productive and more fun. Gates must bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign exchange to America each year. If he makes billions as a result, good luck to him. Will bringing down Microsoft and Gates benefit America? It may soothe the envy of his competitors, but it won't be of long-term benefit to the world. America should celebrate him, not persecute him. BARBARA BANNISTER KwaZulu, South Africa...
...Rosa, Calif.," says Michael O'Neill, an American adviser to the Commercial Bank of Eritrea. "They will not tolerate it in any way, shape or form." During the war, the fighters were too desperate for money to put any into people's pockets, and that scrupulous use of every precious resource carries over into the government today...
...instinct that developed to perpetuate the species: women are indispensable child bearers. You can repopulate a village if the women survive and only a few of the men, but you cannot repopulate a village if the men survive and only a few of the women. Women being more precious, biologically speaking, than men, evolution has conditioned us to give them the kind of life-protecting deference we give to that other seed of the future, kids...
Those crucial points and those precious gimmebaskets from Folkl are now a thing of the pastsince her knee injury has proven to beseason-ending...