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Part I: Sections are a crucial part of a student's education. Not all sections are equal. Some will be filled with enthusiastic future TFs who can't keep their mouths shut, while others will merely have two such students who shield the others from your attack. Don't fall for this ruse. Use the following tips to make the most of your fifty minutes of fame...
...hands-on. There are massage tables everywhere, and people are always handing you a sample of wheatgrass juice or some chartreuse-colored miracle supplement that will do everything short of rotating your tires. Someone named Lissa from Montana explains how a small, stainless-steel medallion known as the BioElectric Shield ($139) can be "the most powerful protection on the planet" against everything from computer screens to microwaves and cell phones...
...status quo. As long as the economy remains buoyant, so too will Clinton's poll numbers. Though hardly an objective observer, Speaker Newt Gingrich has a point when he accuses the President of dedicating his second term to the sole purpose of conserving his popularity. It's a shield against headlines like the ones last week over the missing videotapes. No wonder he is loath to risk...
...Trying Not To Think About It" is a plaintive, moody examination of denial and self-deception. The opening verse rails irrationally on the intrinsic faults of innocent locales ("Southern California is bad for the soul") before grudgingly returning to the self: "how can I shield myself from the things that I hear?/I want to close my eyes and sleep for a year." The arrangement, mixing bongos and warm organ tones with Hatfield's melancholy guitar strumming, manages to sound simultaneously spare and rich--a rare achievement and testament to Hatfield's songwriting prowess...
...beginning the Buddha found enlightenment underneath the bodhi tree, near what is now Nepal. A pampered prince born around 563 B.C., he frustrated his father's efforts to shield him from the sights of suffering and death, became a wandering holy man and eventually formulated the Four Noble Truths that unite all Buddhists today: that life is full of suffering; that most of that suffering, including the fear of death, can be traced to "desire," the mind's habit of seeing everything through the prism of the self and its well-being; that this craving can be transcended, leading...