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...graduates leave campus this year and move into studio apartments across the nation and the world, they will feed into the existing trend. Our campus culture emphasizes quantifiable achievement as exemplified by test scores, grades, colleges and status occupations. Students reached Harvard by succeeding on quantifiable terms; many of us have been trained from early on to think of careers first and families second. These measures of success tend to discount the rewards and achievements that come from being a member of a community or a family. Harvard’s measures of success have gained meaning in our culture...
Unfortunately, current drug trials, even for new cancer treatments, are based on the old chemotherapy model. Success is measured by how much tumors shrink--or disappear--within a few days or weeks. Because angiogenesis inhibitors work on the blood vessels that feed tumors rather than on the tumors themselves, they usually take longer, sometimes as much as a few months, to show any effect...
...growing wealth. This is caused by legislation that weakens union bargaining rights, wage standards, etc. In order to ensure that all Americans can share the wealth that they have worked so hard to achieve, we must make sure that workers are paid a wage that enables them to feed and clothe their families...
...ground at the convent on Good Counsel Hill. This is Minnesota, however; the temperature is 23[degrees]F and the wind chill makes it feel far colder. Yet even though she's wearing only a skirt and sweater, Sister Ada, 91, wants to go outside. She wants to feed the pigs...
...wrenching her back and forth between the present and the past, depositing her without warning into the days when she taught primary schoolchildren in Minnesota or to the years when she was a college student in St. Paul. Or to the times when she and the sisters had to feed the pigs several times...