Word: wanderings
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...just during breaks, but every week. Set aside some time to wander, to find out more about your environment and perhaps yourself, or a good friend. Get lost, and come back better for it. When the top of William James Hall appears in the distance, you will feel a new attachment to things Harvard, a new appreciation for how convenient--or oppressively isolating--our living arrangements are. But you'll never know if you don't get away...
...official misinformation? Beijing is in the middle of its annual political showcase, the National People's Congress, and party leaders surely worry that their handpicked delegates might wander from their scripts and ask tough questions about China's education failures. And with the International Olympic Committee voting in July on Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Games, perhaps Zhu didn't want anyone bringing up the fact that all those stuffed Olympic mascots and five-ring banners could be manufactured by kids in sweatshops. Last year China was embarrassed by reports that children were working 17-hour days packing...
Iowa, 2015. Old people wander aimlessly through virtual ghost towns. Interstate 80 is a wasteland of derelict grain silos and abandoned farms. Buildings stand empty; most factories have shut down...
...administered at the CIA, but he doesn't believe that is the only answer. More promising, he says, are smarter computer-security systems that signal senior managers whenever an employee without a true need to know tries to access sensitive case files. "Invariably [double agents] are apt to wander into areas where they don't belong," says Webster. "We may not always recognize them when they belong--but we can when they don't belong." In the old days, he recalls, a librarian would report anyone asking for files that they didn't need to see. Says Webster: "We need...
...question Hawaneen, a hollow-cheeked Afghan with a wispy beard, had debated with his elders for many weeks, while the famine--the worst in 30 years--tightened its grip on the village. Would they stand a better chance of survival if they remained? Or should they wander elsewhere until they found help? After a three-year drought, every village well had run dry, and the goats and sheep had died. Finally Hawaneen decided it was time to go; he had fed his family the last grains of wheat he had intended to plant this spring if the rains ever came...