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...argued, in defense of such specialization of interest, that if the number of Harvard students seriously interested in a given activity were spread evenly throughout each House, no organization could thrive. It is better, therefore, to allow students with common interests some degree of congregation than to force an artificial and messianic "mingling" across interest lines...
...long-term authority to slash all tariffs by at least 50% and to remove many tariffs completely. At a time when the reciprocal trade laws born in the 1930's have been proved totally inadequate, the new bill was realistically aimed at enabling the U.S. to compete and thrive in the world's marketplace...
...Huffaker of the University of California pored over old records and learned that the plant had not been found in the U.S. before 1903. Then they traced it to its native habitat in Italy and Spain, were surprised to find that on home grounds the weed did not thrive as it did in the U.S. Searching for an explanation, the biologists discovered that the puncture weed is peculiarly susceptible to a particular European pest called the puncture-vine weevil-a quarter-inch brownish beetle with a snoutlike head. The weevil's life cycle is inextricably linked with the growth...
...walls of the first-floor rooms, which the Indians had entered through the ceilings. In the first few weeks they built and consecrated a makeshift church and laid out a plaza in the conventional Spanish fashion. Buildings gradually grew around the plaza. But San Gabriel de Yunque did not thrive. Its settlers were plagued by bedbugs and lice, and their crops were destroyed by field mice. After failing to find gold or other valuable minerals, Oñate left his colony. The capital was moved to Santa Fe, the buildings crumbled, and when the Indians of San Juan pueblo planted...
...John Dewey was worriedly deploring the excesses of progressive education. He was right. Yet the best of his ideas survive and thrive-not in the few U.S. schools that still seem to be straight out of Auntie Mame, but in such well-ordered citadels of learning as Chicago's private Francis W. Parker School...