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Dartmouth decided to offer deferrals to avoid having to resort to drastic measures—Princeton installed temporary trailers after a similarly large class several years ago—and because college officials believe a year off before college can be beneficial to students, Furstenberg said...
...problem and we haven’t seen it in the right light yet? Or is there something bigger thwarting our good intentions? What we think we understand is undermined by our vague powerlessness in the face of the confusion and inefficiency generated by the very methods necessary to avoid or discredit violence: dialogue, discussion, negotiation, democracy...
...Paulo, Brazil, a survey found, nearly a quarter of city residents routinely change their driving routes to avoid robberies in which thugs stop a car at a light and demand money at gunpoint or force occupants to an ATM. The crime is so pervasive that Brazil has become the world's hottest market for private armored vehicles. And for the largest U.S. armorer--O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, based in Fairfield, Ohio--times are flush. For about $65,000, O'Gara will take your Cadillac and outfit it with bulletproof glass, high-tensile body plastic, a siren and a slew...
...plan is to starve them, and after months of legal wrangles and, ultimately, a lucrative settlement, the city evicted Bernard Rayner, Trafalgar's sole bird-feed vendor, from the square. Trafalgar's pigeons are so tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon Alliance. Week after week, a grandmotherly woman marches through the square with a bulging shoulder bag. From it pours a thin golden stream of corn. Her payload deposited, the lady scurries away to meet co-conspirator June?she doesn't want...
...aircraft took off before dawn they had their lights on, and it was like the sky was filled with fireflies. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. In formation, the propeller engine of the plane ahead of you makes a smoke stream. To avoid it, I was flying a little bit higher than the aircraft in front of me. I was near the end of the second group. The leader was at 3,000 m. Gradually, the other planes were each a little bit higher. I was at 3,500 m. I felt like a shepherd watching...