Word: travels
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...self-evident that students, on this campus do some truly amazing things. Philips Brooks House sends about 1,000 student volunteers into Boston. Cambridge and other localities, improving the lives of thousands of needy individuals every year. Let's Go, Inc. publishes a best-selling series of travel guides. The Undergraduate Council almost unquestionably helped influence Pepsi's decision to withdraw its investments from Burma. Harvard perennially leads the nations in Rhodes and Marshall Scholars. Its students write books and plays and TV scripts. They appear in movies, on national television and in the Olympics...
...altogether in favor of low-cost proposals, Executive actions and speeches that highlight local initiatives, especially on welfare reform and education, which Clinton sees as his best shot for a lasting legacy. "Most of this work isn't done in Congress," says McCurry. In the coming weeks, Clinton will travel to state capitals to exhort legislatures to beef up educational standards and help put welfare recipients to work...
...This is a huge, huge revolution, like the advent of railroads and air travel," says Allen Sinai, the president and chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics in Boston. "Future economic historians will write about this as a major event in our history." Concurs Joseph Stiglitz, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "In the 19th century, the frontier of America was moving from agriculture to manufacturing. Today the frontier is going from manufacturing to services and technology, much of which can be exported." While this revolution has been under way since the 1960s, technology keeps accelerating...
...talent. Organizers also sell pageant jewelry and publish journals that earn money through advertising. And before the parents are done, they have usually shelled out hundreds more for costumes (in the better pageants they must be handmade, not off the rack), makeup, voice or dance lessons, pageant consultants and travel...
...wastes of time. For DIANA GABALDON they were the touchstones of a whole new career. Having gained a Ph.D. in ecology and worked for 12 years as a scientist, Gabaldon, inspired by an episode of Dr. Who (the British Star Trek), started writing what she calls "chunks" about time travel, ancient Scotland and sex. "I posted some of it on CompuServe to win an argument," says Gabaldon. "And people said, 'This is wonderful. What is it?' And I said, 'I don't know.' "Eight years later, she's still writing chunks, which have been crafted into four hefty novels...