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...that they know how to be ambiguous. Whether it be on term papers, fake ID's or androgynous fashion selection, people here never want anyone else to know what they really are, or, furthermore, what they really think. Probably even more significantly, vague action extends to the social sphere. Could-be, should-be and should-not-be relationships are all marked by indeterminate phrases heard all too often in conversation between potential mates. Fortunately, Teen FM has the scoop on ambiguity in romantic dialogue, not to mention the common follies of misinterpreters...
...have only seen the shows on flat rectangular screens, the five-story dome of the museum's Omni Theater is quite a pleasant shock. The screen curves and stretches upward on all sides until the panels catch up with each other and meet harmoniously in a perfect half-sphere, forming a deceivingly delicate, pearly shell that encompasses and dominates the audience for the entire show. The viewer might be tempted to complain about neck strain, but the seats do recline. Besides, when the movie actually starts, one will realize that this is the only way to be surrounded...
McMullen says that the solution involves iterating a dynamical system on a sphere--more reliable than "Newton's method"--to get closer and closer approximations...
...later draw on as inspiration for their own feats. It is the quest for the truth of what happened in the past. Great people tend to draw their own lessons. Mukunda's jingoistic interpretation of the American ideal obscures this quest for truth and limits it to the American sphere of intellectual tradition. Martin Luther King drew lessons from Ghandi as well as Lincoln, yet this does not require that everyone study Indian history. Mukunda's misplaced emphasis on the unique and especially worthy moral truth of America's ideals contributes to the nationalistic and isolationist, "intellectual" climate in this...
...disparity between the developed and developing world, between North and South, reflects itself also in the sphere of educational and intellectual resources. When in Africa we speak and dream of, and work for, a rebirth of that continent as a full participant in the affairs of the world in the next century, we are deeply conscious of how dependent that is on the mobilisation and strengthening of the continent's resources of learning...