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...four miles in three hours ... [After] she had been swimming for eleven hours, the water blackened fast. a squally rain whipped the broken seas that, running out with the tide, slapped her in the face ... For two hours the current would run against her ... She was no nearer the shore. For two hours, with truncheon legs that never stopped kicking, with failing arms that beat on, she had been swimming in a treadmill ... Suddenly, deliciously at her back, she felt the lifting current that would sweep her ashore ... The pale cliffs of England ... blazed with light. Bonfires were flaming there...
...skilled labor is an asset like any other. It wasn't always that way. Duncan Meldrum, Air Products' chief economist, recalls a time when it responded to competitive pressure with across-the-board layoffs, a policy he thinks was a mistake. "It doesn't work," he says. "You may shore up your margins, but you lose an awful lot more than you gain." Now the company looks more carefully at its business during the down times, selling off parts that aren't working--such as gas delivered in cylinders for welding and metal fabrication--and retraining workers whenever possible...
Some would say that the more progressive concerns expressed by the rugby team should be quelled in order for us to shore up support for a candidate who can beat Bush. But I think that the team’s words of warning about the perils of politics-as-usual couldn’t come at a better time. In a moment when the center beckons to candidates (and of course this side-stepping may only get worse after the primaries), Radcliffe Rugby’s opinions matter most. We could sit around all day and debate whether Dean?...
...River Ganges,” published in May 8, 1875 in Harper’s Magazine. Cast in the distance of Nast’s drawing, St. Peter’s Basilica is a gilded structure across the river from which alligators (decked out in priestly collars) approach the shores of America. There, a crumbling public school, with an upside-down American flag, is depicted. The shore is lined with schoolchildren, who have been dropped off the side of a cliff by menacing Irishmen...
...would be good to have undergraduates know more about public health…and see that as a potential career opportunity,” Shore says...