Word: concern
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Dartmouth's board has emphasized student groupings around interest. Already, students at Dartmouth are highly separated by their residences, both in Greek houses and interest houses. While the board emphasized an "overarching community" which would bring together the cluster communities there is a concern that the current separation of students by interest would continue under the new system. While the student choice that the board proposed is attractive, it may lead to self-segregation...
...Diane E. Smith, a Cronkhite resident who is enrolled in a one-year masters program at the Graduate School of Education, said the students' objections to the renovations were more about preserving the future of a vibrant community than concern for themselves...
Whereas elite universities (in theory, at least) concern themselves with the heights of human excellence, pop music seems universally low. This is due in part to the fact that such music is popular: It appeals not to aesthetes, but to the musically unsophisticated masses. If the musically knowledgeable enjoy it all the same, it is not by virtue of their knowledge: One can learn to appreciate a Mendelssohn concerto; the same is not true of, say, a given track on the latest Violent Femmes CD. One either enjoys it or not--there's no learning involved...
...enough to make great numbers of people take seriously something like the worst wave of extinctions since the dinosaurs died. People take themselves seriously; with the relentlessness of health news, there probably has never been a time when one was more aware of oneself as a natural organism. Yet concern for self does not expand sufficiently to embrace concern for the species, and definitely not for all species, to which one is connected by common evolution. We dabble in biotechnology as crude approximations of nature. We are guilt-ridden about what we eat from time to time. We take...
...Seeing is believing" is one of Charles' favorite sayings, no doubt repeated when the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture recently paid Highgrove a visit. And it's a safe bet that the American visitor received an earful on Charles' other farming concern: genetically modified crops. Once again the Prince has shown himself to be ahead of the curve. Back in December 1995 he pronounced himself "profoundly apprehensive" about the brave new world of genetically modified organisms and complained of the "confidence bordering on arrogance" with which they are promoted. The Prince practices what he preaches, and a sign by the lane...