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...Appearance: Knowing that books are all too often judged by their covers, together people reflect their inner organization in their appearance. Sometimes they're color-coordinated, but together people realize that extreme color coordination shows overkill. However, their skirts/pants/shirts are always unwrinkled, and complement each other. Their hair is, if not gorgeous and luxuriant, smooth and tame. Shoes on together people's feet are not scuffed. They own an iron, and know...
...more Heidegger drones on, while video images flash by in lively contrast to the deadpan textual underpinning. Philosophical discourse takes such an incredible amount of concentration and linear, logical thinking, that the flashing images and spatial nature of the cinematic form disrupts Heidegger's text more than they complement it. This brings one of the exhibit's main conflicts to light. We are a society torn between discourses, one written and one visual, and our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our guilt-laden tendency to try to make...
Economic theory has caught up to the reality that basic and higher education plays an increasingly important role in the determination of incomes and livelihood. Human capital can be defined as the skills and technical knowledge workers possess. It is analogous to physical capital in that it is a complement to labor productivity and (by extenion) a complement to labor demand. It is also analogous to physical capital in that it represents the outcome of an investment: a costly expenditure in which benefits are spread out over a long period of time...
With a full complement of fencers, Harvard travelled to MIT Saturday and battled the Engineers into submission. The women won 23-9, and the men triumphed...
...appearance of drug-resistant strains of the AIDS virus in infected individuals by as much as one year (patients treated with AZT alone encounter resistance within a few months). Together the drugs also kept the extent of the infection in check while allowing the body to boost its complement of virus-fighting immune cells. More studies are needed to determine whether this will actually translate into a healthier and longer life for AIDS patients...