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...most part, welcome. From four arrests in Miami to nudity in the name of animal rights, the College community has witnessed a respectable maintenance of its obligation to objection—if, at times, in the name of misguided goals. But, though students stood up this year for many salient social issues, there is, of course, still room for apathy...
...understand...why anti-American hatred in the Middle East has become so important,” he says. “The most important policy decision in Middle Eastern countries is how they’re going to treat the U.S.—we’re enormously salient and policy relevant...
...government's most salient media campaign to reduce childhood obesity is an initiative called Verb, which encourages kids to be more physically active. Absent from its promotional materials, however, is any mention of the need for children to cut back on junk food. --By Daren Fonda
...according to Zuckerberg, the overlap between the two sites’ information requests is not the product of deception, but a lack of salient questions that would be of value in a profile...
...graduated from high school? As Pomp and Circumstance reached its final decrescendo what began occupying your thoughts? Summer, perhaps? Spending time with soon to be departing friends? Your concentration choice at Harvard? Right—not so much. In fact, choosing a concentration does not really become a salient reality until far later—after Freshman Week, after the early barrage of extracurricular opportunities, after shopping period, after Winter break, after finals and, for many, after the concentration deadline itself. That many first-years dismissively fill out their plans of study knowing that they will need at least...