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...fleeting)? Granted, the author's previous book was a No. 1 blockbuster that sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, but the difference is that his original was far superior: a deceptively simple but ultimately smart lesson on coping with the inevitability of change. Here, the pensées are punier. A confused young Everyman journeys to the top of a mountain, where he is instructed by a wise old man given to restating the obvious ("Find and use the good that is hidden in the bad time"). The peaks and valleys of the title are the ups and downs...
...other point in your life, not even at any other point during the fantasyland of college, will your sole responsibilities be a) to study for some few hours over the course of two weeks, and b) manage your fantasy sports teams. In many ways, Reading Period is the slightly punier little brother of the glorious days of Camp Harvard. These are times that should be treasured, not destroyed or changed.Furthermore, moving exams before Christmas would do nothing to alleviate stress; it would only exacerbate it. Picture this—as you read this column, your friends at other schools...
...University of Washington, researchers have succeeded in breeding a so-called "supertrout," which outstrips its punier kin by gaining as much as two pounds a year and thriving in salt water. By cultivating the supertrout, as well as oysters and algae, Washington State's impoverished Lummi Indians are establishing one of the more promising U.S. aquafarms. The Oceanic Institute's founder, Taylor A. Pryor, whose researchers advise the Lummis, thinks similarly lucrative aquafarms can be set up all along the tidal areas of the U.S. Northwest, British Columbia and southern Alaska...
...biologists at Uncle Sam's Fish College think the plan will work for virtually all the Columbia's estimated 240,000 Chinooks-though it may result in a punier breed of fish. But oldtime fishermen are skeptical. Said Forest Ranger Grady Miller, gazing moodily at a Wallowa Lake dam that has completely destroyed a once-great salmon fishing ground: "Civilization and salmon...
Jack Dempsey discloses that his pen is punier than his punch in the attached gem, under his signature, syndicated in the nation's press...
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