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Julia Levy of Vancouver still remembers the day in the mid-1980s when her heart broke. She was sitting across the dining-room table from Dorothy Coppens, her vibrant 85-year-old mother, who had just been found to be suffering from macular degeneration, an incurable deterioration of the central portion of the retina that is the leading cause of blindness in people 60 and older. "Your face is just a brown smear," Coppens told her daughter. "I guess I'll never see your face again...
...suing students have speciously proposed that the groups in question might be able to fund themselves, but this would grant a voice on campus only to those groups popular enough to become self-supporting. In the university environment, as much learning can occur outside the classroom as within. A vibrant community of often discordant student groups is a public good that all students benefit from and that all students can reasonably be expected to support...
...That circle of friends that I was part of one the most intellectually and personally diverse and vibrant and challenging and upsetting and stimulating," blockmate Kapetan says. "I think that's why we selected one another...
...only a few of the songs in Spanish Dance Troupe fully realize Gorky's lyrical potential. The album valiantly attempts to present a varied array of sounds. But only a few of the elements in the collection, most notably "Poodle Rockin', stand alone as exemplars of vibrant variations on Gorky's basic style...
...sites boast vibrant colors and flashy layout, plus a synopsis of 500 words or so for each lecture. The Web site does carry advertisements for credit cards, Internet companies and other businesses that target college students...