Word: clustering
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...After briefly congratulating myself for penetrating one of the nation's last bastions of secrecy, I descended into shock. It wasn't that I was bowled over by the committee room - really just a cluster of windowless rooms in a basement - but that I suddenly realized my own admission to college was a total fluke. In adhering to the conventional wisdom dished out by parents, teachers and so many guidebooks, I made almost every misstep in the book. I had bought into every one of the myths about applying to college...
That's changing. The children are grown now, and a number are speaking up, telling stories of pain that didn't go away the moment they turned 18 or even 40. A cluster of new books is fueling a backlash, not against divorce itself but against the notion that kids somehow coast through it. Stephanie Staal's The Love They Lost (Delacorte Press), written by a child of divorce, is part memoir and part generational survey, a melancholy volume about the search for love by kids who remember the loss of love too vividly. The Case for Marriage by Linda...
...that interesting. Nor are beaches: you just wind up staring at the ocean. Forests are nothing but trees. Deserts are beautiful for about 15 min., but they're always out in the middle of nowhere. As for mountains, an occasional range is nice, but mountains tend to cluster and become a continuous piece of bad art, a painting you'd see at an estate sale and not buy. And mountain people are a pain. Vermonters, for example, tend to be very sniffy about who is worthy to set foot in their midst and use their toilet facilities. In Minnesota...
Myplay also has what Fisher calls engineer gravity. As the guys who do the heavy lifting in any start-up, engineers are heavily in demand. The companies where they cluster are the ones with the greatest chance of attracting more engineers--especially ones that take pay cuts. Engineer gravity may determine who lives and dies in Round 2 of the Net economy...
Every student who logs into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) UNIX login cluster since last week has been greeted by the message, "'my.harvard.edu' is now on-line," as part of an effort to get students to use the site...