Word: pursuits
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...Tuxpan is a porticoed five-bedroom residence in the center of town, and he drives a late-model Nissan Pathfinder. In the front of his vast garden are orchids and lilies he brought from the Hamptons. In the back are groves of guava, orange and avocado. But Coria's pursuit of success has taken a heavy toll. Being just about the only Mexican gardener in the Hamptons when he first arrived meant less competition, but it also made him more homesick. He returned to Tuxpan in the winters, but "every March when I went back to America, there would...
This innovative and wildly anticipated spring course, which will examine the clash between scientific pursuit and moral values, is being offered jointly by the government and biological sciences departments and should have a high turnout on the first Monday of shopping period. The two professors, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel and Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Douglas J. Melton have shared a classroom before. “We and the students had such fun on those occasions that Doug and I decided to co-teach an undergraduate class together,” Sandel wrote in an e-mail...
...does seem like a jackpot kind of city, where you can just hit and make it. Fame and the pursuit of it and how serious it is as an objective now with even young people, because they think money will free them; all the money in the world will bring them their happiness...
...Wake up!” he implored the crowd. “And learn that liberty and the pursuit of happiness are actually the same thing...
...won’t work,” said Jeffrey B. Miller, who is a fifth-year graduate student in applied physics. “It’s a waste of the government’s time trying to invade in the pursuit of knowledge—something they have shown over and over again they know nothing about...