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...public's abused trust. If Americans can depend on the information on the new labels, then they will be able to take the first, least expensive step toward better health through a better diet. They will also be able to discover at last the true answer to that age-old question, What are we eating for dinner...
...tenet that sex should be confined to marriage is an age-old one inherited from Judaism. It is under assault because of the pressures of modern reality: the sexual precocity of young Americans, the large number of divorced or unmarried adults who have active sex lives, and the growing strength of the gay-rights movement. The issues are hitting hardest at the moderate and liberal "mainline" Protestant denominations that stress toleration and follow social currents. These groups, which have been steadily losing membership, could face further attrition, even outright schism, over...
...many years of serving as a campus laughing stock forced council members to consider which was preferable: to be a loud and active campus voice and risk ridicule, or to keep a low profile and work with little recognition. Hence the age-old council debate of services vs. politics...
...subject is familiar from Chinatown: Los Angeles has its water piped in from afar; the archetypal modern city is built on the theft of age-old resources. Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (1983) had the same doomsday message dressed in high-tech style. That movie was serious fun, but O'Neill's is bolder, more disciplined. Every shot has a lure and a meaning; the film's shapely silhouette is easy to trace. Gorgeous and zippy, Water and Power is an intoxicant without a hangover...
...administrator could say in the spring of 1994, 'imagine the benefits.' First, we have decidedly enriched the Harvard experience by increasing the international population, a move DeWolfe facilitated. Second, we have nearly equalized house populations, a long-sought goal. Third, we have preserved one of Harvard's age-old traditions. We have made a mess...