Word: cannot
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...will have no problem picking your concentration, will love your roommates and will be elected an officer of a student group before you turn 19. Your biggest problem might be figuring out how to handle all the phone calls you receive without angering your beloved roommates. I cannot (and would not) help you with that problem...
...During the year, being an "international student" also brings other inconveniences. The time difference means my parents and I have to coordinate in advance when I'm calling home. During move out every year, I cannot drive or even ship home what I cannot fit into summer storage. Birthday and holiday cards and presents to home have to be prepared and mailed out at least a week in advance. These and other inconveniences of living far away from home will train you to grumble at your friends from New York who complain of homesickness...
...Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrated at the CBS offices in New York. They said they were angry because contestants on the CBS game show "Survivor" were roasting and eating rats. "RATS HAVE RIGHTS," the placards said. Admittedly, this was a marginal example of millennial Kulturkampf - I cannot recall the last time I was tempted to violate the rights of a rat by eating it. Still, PETA's case works rather nicely from absurdity (rats?!) to essence (what exactly are the moral claims of life, however odious the lifeform?). You can get an argument going around that...
Today we can do something new. We can reduce the text to bits (which we cannot see or hear), take this new representation and store it, manipulate it or transmit it, and then later render it on a computer display or a piece of paper. The same is true of music, movies, still photographs. While this is widely recognized, few people have a sense of the quantity of bits needed to achieve one representation vs. another. For example, when you read a book, you consume (if you read as fast as I do) about 3 million bits an hour. When...
...from being the whole answer. In developing countries, lost crops are only one cause of hunger. Poverty plays the largest role. Today more than 1 billion people around the globe live on less than $1 a day. Making genetically modified crops available will not reduce hunger if farmers cannot afford to grow them or if the local population cannot afford to buy the food those farmers produce...