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...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...have seen the Chinese trade vacuum out one region after another - Burma, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, then Sumatra," says van Dijk. Typically, the trade follows a three- to five-year boom and bust cycle, van Dijk says, adding that 75% of Asia's 90 species of tortoise and freshwater turtles now are threatened. Worldwide about 40% of long-lived, slow to mature species are at immediate risk of extinction, according to CI. Now, conservationists fear the Chinese turtle trade has the U.S. in its sights...
...costs at the same institution. Likewise state funding has dropped significantly. State funding covered about half of the cost of tuition in 1980; as of 2000 that number had been cut by a third. The lack of government funding for higher education has created an economic vacuum filled through student loan programs...
...totally clear who's winning, it's easy enough to see who's losing: the U.S Justice Department, which is in a fair state of disarray as a result of Gonzales' continued presence. "There's a vacuum of leadership at the top of the department," says one senior Justice official. Privately, even top Gonzales aides admit that the impression in the department is that the Attorney General was, at best, out to lunch during the U.S. Attorney firings - his lack of recall during hearings only further underscored that impression. And the subject of the scandal has the ability to undermine...
...dining hall. Nicolson said maintenance workers replaced the pipe last Thursday, putting down deodorant and attempting to neutralize the smell. Heather S. Horn ’08 said she witnessed the clean-up process. “They were pumping a lot of stuff out of there into a vacuum truck,” Horn said. “It was this yellow van...it looked really sketchy.” Students said the deodorizer was only a small improvement. “They covered it with a really strong floral powder,” Horn said...