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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
Cleanup crews continued to skim mayonnaise-thick oil from Prince William Sound, but progress was slow and the oil had spread over an area larger than Delaware. The animal death toll rose and salmon hatcheries remained endangered...
...freighter of the future will skim across the water at nearly 60 m.p.h., as fast as Don Johnson's speedboat in Miami Vice. But the craft will be 265 ft. long and carry as much as 1,000 tons of cargo. Last week the Japanese government decided to develop such a freighter for commerce between Japan and its Asian neighbors...
...arrived when the council cannot even be considered the student voice on food-related issues. Harvard Dining Services made a unilateral decision to remove chocolate milk from the front lines of beverage selections to replace it with skim milk--and didn't even think of notifying the council representatives...
Postmaster General Frank opposes any move to end the Postal Service's monopoly on first-class and third-class mail. Private firms, he argues, are no substitute for a universal postal service, since they tend to skim the cream off the market, serving well-to-do customers in urban areas but ignoring people in thinly populated regions. Frank admits that the Postal Service could do a better job. One way to help it do so, he says, is increased capital spending to expand facilities and modernize antiquated equipment. If Congress makes that investment possible, Frank is convinced, postal workers...