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...prevent having to spend a month sitting at home in New Jersey with your family...concentrate in engineering! Thanks to a program organized by the SEAS, while your friends are sitting at home watching reruns of "The Office" next January, you (assuming you switch your concentration to engineering) could be in BRAZIL...
Hospitals can also switch to more environmentally friendly, “green” cleaning products, which are safer and have fewer hazardous ingredients, said Bello...
...system will be constantly updated based on feedback from users, Robinson said. By the fall of 2009, the new HOLLIS will allow readers to sift through different types of media—including visual, audio, and various archives—from a single search field. Currently, users must switch pages on HOLLIS to search different types of sources. “Our goal is to expand the scope of data, so you can have different sources made available to you in your search,” said Robinson. Students have commented on the new system’s visual appeal...
...surface, this seems fine. After all, this is the heyday of the chronic oversharer. Everyone talks all the time, regardless of whether anyone listens. We Tweet, we Facebook, we Gchat, we blog, we text. We share every thought, significant or un, from the moment we switch on our iPhones in the morning to the instant we sit down face to face with an actual person. The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted. Fran Lebowitz once remarked that “the opposite of talking isn?...
History is full of revolutionaries who failed to make the switch. Most promised people's rule but, once in power, embraced a permanent state of revolution - some, like Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chávez, conjuring up fantastical foreign enemies to fight. (To those ranks, now add the leader of the influential ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, who told the East London rally that the young would "never allow them to donate this country to Britain, to the hands of the colonizers.") To their people, this never-ending war is generally experienced as dictatorship. Too many liberation leaders leave office...