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Unfortunately, just deleting a program's folder doesn't remove these extensions from your System Folder. You should prune old extensions from your System Folder every few months. But don't put them in the trash right away, in case you take out the wrong file. Instead, create an "Old Extensions" folder on your hard disk and put them there instead...
...each meal. If everyone enjoyed themselves enough to hang around, there would never be enough room. Maybe the Union staff is trying to kick people out. Or maybe they're just trying to help first-years keep off the dreaded `Freshman Fifteen.' Like Plum Crazy Cookie Bars with prune paste instead of sugar, the backroom paintings discourage dessert...
...having survived a mountain of troubles, veteran vintners can look upon something like PD as just one more hazard of the business. "What the hell," says Jack Cakebread of Napa's prizewinning Cakebread Cellars. "Agriculture has always been that way. But it's a bummer. I just planted 350 prune trees that host the wasps that prey on the sharpshooter." He pauses to sip from a glass of his 1991 reserve Chardonnay and laughs. "Now if I can just figure out how to make prune wine...
...what other area of life would we demand that any one person fulfill such a huge multiplicity of needs? No one would ask his or her accountant to come by and prune the shrubbery, or the pediatrician to take out the garbage. Everywhere else we observe a strict division of labor; only in marriage do we demand the all-purpose, multivalent, Renaissance person...
...students, they may actually emerge stronger than ever. "What we are witnessing is the death of the 19th century research university," says David Scott Kastan, chairman of Columbia's department of English and comparative literature. Such institutions are enormously inefficient, but there are good ways and bad ways to prune them. "There's the democracy-of-pain option," he explains, "whereby you cut across the board, which runs a terrible risk of mediocritizing and demoralizing the university. Or you can make more selective cuts, which require real leadership...