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...refers to this group as the “Z-list,” and there are approximately 20 Z-listed students per year. What the Z-list does is enable the admissions office to admit students whose credentials coming out of high school are not quite up to snuff. Because Harvard considers taking a year off to be beneficial, it follows that these 20 students, having spent a year studying or traveling, will as a result have somewhat more impressive curricula vitae when they enter school than otherwise...
...Hermann Scheer electrified a Washington audience last month with his gale-force enthusiasm. Nuclear fission and fossil-fuel burning amount to "global pyromania," he told a conference of environmental activists. "Renewable energy is the fire extinguisher." By mid-century, he asserted confidently, wind, solar and other renewables can snuff out all conventional energy sources...
...What distinguishes a snuff film from a historical document? Showing crime-scene photos from a murder-rape adds nothing to the public discourse. The media chose not to print death photos of Princess Diana, and we were none the poorer. But there are exceptions. The Nazis? victims stacked in mounds, the Viet Cong executed with a gunshot to the head, the dead at Kent State and in Rwanda all had families and a human right to dignity. But their deaths had an unfortunate significance for the world; they were conscripted into history in a way that someone knifed...
...Khmer Rouge did their best to snuff out the 1,000-year-old dance form, murdering an estimated 80% of its masters during their 1975-79 pogrom against artists and intellectuals. Those who survived spent the 1980s and 1990s teaching the art to a younger generation and recording it for posterity on video and paper. You can observe dance classes at the Royal University of Fine Arts' North Campus Monday through Saturday from 7:30 to 10:30 in the morning. Or, to see the finished product for $5, get dates and showtimes from Sovanna Phum by e-mailing sovannaphum@netrec.net...
...been through accounting arcana to cover the Enron and Andersen stories, so I thought Samsung was a blessing in disguise. Then I started running into terms like DRAMS and SRAMS, TFT/LCD and DLP, CDMA and TDMA, GSM and GPRS. So in two days I had to be up to snuff on enough of the lingo to find out why Samsung was so hot in chips, TV monitors, computer monitors and cell phones. Now I know what a DLP TV is. (Hint: it's thin, looks good on a tabletop and makes Saturday-sports fanatics ecstatic.) Samsung Telecommunications America opened...