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...takes 150 to 200 ethnic families in a community to sustain the sense of belonging and ethnic identification," Davidian says...
...found it irritating to sit through the tedious Windows start-up process when my supposedly intelligent machine s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y discovered that it was no longer on a network; it was on my lap. And the two-hour battery just wasn't enough to sustain my two-way commute...
...music itself is fascinating and intricate. Because of the short strings of the lute cannot sustain the notes for very long, a style was developed in France known as style brise which works by breaking up the notes of a chord instead of playing them in unison. The result is music that is not played but poured. The notes cascade from the strings. chords stretching out, developing and coming back together, voices rippling out against each other, chasing up and down across the bass tones, Lute repertoire covers a wide stylistic range, made up largely of pieces inspired by country...
...winter in Cambridge, but the glass walls of the Science Center's Machine Room #1 sustain a jungle: mice hang from swinging cables, keyboards perch on walls and wires droop down from every crack and crevice like banyon sprouts. This is Harvard's biggest computer--a seemingly haphazard assemblage of mismatched computer parts that actually serves (well, most of the time) to facilitate Harvard networking. Mecca for computer geeks and e-mail junkies alike, here sit the guts and glory of our modern net-crazed campus...
...years she has brought poetry readings andbook signings to Plympton Street in a fight toincrease her store's prominence. Support fromHarvard helps, but may not be enough to sustain astore that is the project of one woman...