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...ones. The multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire, for instance, was followed by new constructs -- Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia -- containing as many disparate and often hostile peoples. Hence today's tribal conflicts. All too often, a mistreated minority achieves independence and then mistreats other minorities in its midst or tries to "rescue" its brethren who live on the other side of a national frontier. Thus self-determination for one people becomes aggression against another...
...fast food-making positions that the word "services" has often brought to mind. Indeed, nearly half the new service jobs have gone to people with managerial, professional or technical skills, which has helped raise the average income of all service workers to close to the level of their manufacturing brethren...
...choreographer of this production miracle, which stretches from the foothills of the Alleghenies to the high plains of the West, combined a bit of capitalism with salubrious weather. Like their corporate brethren, farmers have learned and leaned. It took only 600,000 farmers to plant, nurture and collect most of this crop, compared with more than 1 million only 20 years ago. These survivors, almost all of them educated landowners plugged in by computers to the latest technologies of soil, fertilizers and cultivation, were ready and waiting. The terrible floods of last year had left many of them convinced that...
This decision by the Fly, while disappointing, hasn't caused a widespread furor in the Harvard community for a simple reason: Most people have long since written off the Fly and its brethren final clubs, considering them nothing more than a stomping ground for up-and-coming elitists...
...entirely cleared up. That suppresses susceptible microbes but allows partially resistant ones to flourish. People with viral infections sometimes demand antibiotics, even though the drugs are useless against viruses. This, too, weeds out whatever susceptible bacteria are lurking in their bodies and promotes the growth of their hardier brethren. In many countries, antibiotics are available over the counter, which lets patients diagnose and dose themselves, often inappropriately. And high-tech farmers have learned that mixing low doses of antibiotics into cattle feed makes the animals grow larger. (Reason: energy they would otherwise put into fighting infections goes | into gaining weight...