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...believe it's a term for raw-meat eater. That sounded pretty bad until I realized it's exactly what yuppie meant in the 1980s. A proud Inupiat, Nasuk said that when her people were hunter-gatherers in the freezing North Slope, they sometimes had to leave behind the weak and elderly. "My understanding is that elders would voluntarily stay behind. It wouldn't have been a cruel practice. It would have been an acceptance of 'I'm dying. Let me be on my way,'" she said. Which is exactly how I'll put it on my death panel...
Priority Lane It won't be an easy race for China to win. The Chinese auto industry is fractured and weak. The domestic market is dominated by foreign manufacturers such as GM (which is doing much better in Beijing than it is in Detroit) and Volkswagen. But the government in Beijing has made it very clear that it considers electric and plug-in vehicles a priority for Chinese companies, and it's willing to spend. The Chinese State Council announced in January that it would spend $1.6 billion over the next three years to develop alternative fuels, and there...
...Harvard, Roberts—the three-time recipient of the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in the Work of Undergraduates and in the Art of Teaching—has duly accrued recognition for her pedagogy, Kelsey said. “‘Dedicated’ is a weak word to use to describe her devotion to her students and her scholarship,” Kelsey said. “She works amazingly hard.” Roberts graduated from Stanford University in 1992 and went on to Yale to receive her Ph.D. in 2000. For the following...
...Obama's problems on the left will be mitigated by the fact that most Democrats have also supported this war - as opposed to Iraq's - and have little desire to reverse themselves. They don't want to hurt the President, and they don't want to be perceived as weak on defense come election time...
...hope that when Nancy Gibbs is 85--her eyesight is nearly gone, her hearing is weak and she is alone in the world--that no one is so dismissive about her sorrow and despair. To assert that "advances in palliative care mean that those last years of life do not have to be a moral, medical and financial nightmare" suggests that Gibbs doesn't spend much time visiting friends in nursing homes. I would advise her to seek some wisdom there. G. Sue Eiler, WEST LAFAYETTE...