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...agree with the staff's underlying assertion that blocking group size should remain a matter of student choice. But for this very reason, we are wary of their implicit conception of an "ideal" blocking group...
However, this near-sighted approach neglects the very qualities of a "nebulous" conception of blocking. Each student's unique first-year experience produces an infinitely diverse array of personal bonds. Reducing any particular network of friendships to mere factors of size of intimacy ignores their individual richness and worth. It is up to each individual student--through personal introspection and open dialogue--to determine the ideal blocking group. The end result might happen to be a large, small, tight-knit or diffuse group. It could mean a group that encapsulates one's entire social circle or one that exists solely...
...other. They were "feisty, defiant--I don't want to say it, but O.K., borderline a_______," says Joe Simpson, the school's hulklike vice principal and disciplinarian (who suspended Tom at least once). "Together, they were bad for each other. Some say Tom looked up to Ethan for his size"--Tom is shorter and 20 lbs. lighter--"but in terms of being a risk taker, Tom is at the top of the list." They were tight, but they were also competitive in the way that a lot of young male friends are. Tom had more money, but Ethan was cooler...
...reverse the decline by lobbying for the preservation of green spaces as feeding grounds and nailing nesting boxes high on the outside walls of homes. He chose older houses that had been refurbished, so that the birds could return to familiar haunts. The birdhouses are plain pinewood, about the size of a shoebox, with an entry hole in front. So far, Alon and his colleagues in Operation Kestrel have put up 40 boxes in Jerusalem and 50 in Haifa. "The kestrels are dependent on people," says Alon, who started bird watching as a 13-year-old growing...
Here is one of the back alleys in which the Web can be brilliantly educational. Will enough high school kids, rummaging for term-paper material, find this alley and see what it means? Which is, perhaps, that virtual power, not real size, is often what's important. Envirolink has few staff members and little money, but it has power, because it is an entry to 400 enviro and animal-rights websites. Off-Road.com is an unknown, except to its communicants, who are mostly Western motorheads determined to keep Forest Service logging roads open at a time when rising environmental awareness makes...