Word: yao
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Meanwhile, houses on Florida's eastern coast are beset by another insect immigrant. The Formosan termite, thought to have arrived there aboard a seagoing yacht, forms colonies underground. Its subterranean paths sometimes extend as far as 300 ft. Says Entomologist Nan-Yao Su of the University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center: "In one instance, in Hallandale, Fla., a single colony had driven foraging tunnels underneath four large condominium buildings and infested each one." The insects chew up virtually anything in their path. Last year downtown Honolulu lost power for half a day after Formosan termites severed...
...meat of Packaging is straight out of my eighth-grade Warriner's grammar book. "Use the active voice." "Use parallel construction," and "Use paragraphs as basic building blocks" are some of Yao's rather commonsense suggestions Yao's thesis that most qualified law school applicants don't spend enough time on major mistake." The solution? Packaging of course. But be careful. Yao warns "You are not packaging yourself so that Aunt Molly will hire you to clean her yard once a week, nor are you packaging yourself so that your father will let use his new car." Assuming...
...probably think that future Felix Frankfurters wouldn't buy such a petty primer. Wrongo Yao told The Crimson last week that advance sales of the book--available only by writing the publisher--"have been incredible, and I don't think that's an accident." The Coop expects Packaging (which will hit the bookshelves next month) to sell "very, very well." The phenomenal thing is that there are already half a dozen similar books on sale at most area book stores (one of the best guides is Your Ticket to Low School by Harvard Law School student Lawrence Graham). Yao says...
...Yao said that on the day he talked to The Crimson he had phone interview with 15 other colleges, including number of Ivy League Schools. Although, as Yao, writes. The competition is tough out there," people any crawling all over each other to find the edge for getting into prestigious School. It's rather obvious why there such a demand for this type of book money. But nobody will admit to that not even Yao, who said. "Money was not a primary consideration for writing this book. I just want to help people get into law school. "How altruistic...
According to his book, Yao is an associate at a "major"--but un named--Wall Street law firm Curiously, two of the people who plug the book on the back cover are also associates at "Major Wall St. Law Firm." And I suspect that thousands of people who will buy Packaging are prospective associates at "Major Walk St. Law Firm. "Many of them probably didn't know (before they read Packaging) that they should not under any circumstances, "sprinkle" their applications with "typos, misspellings and grammatical errors." Nonetheless Yao wants them to join the legalistic lemmings...