Word: functions
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...What function of literature is the most important at the present time, critical or creative? 10 pages...
...suppose it's partly a function of national origin. For any of you who've had the pleasure of tasting Singaporean food, you'll recognize that it's a food borne of a culture that does not waste, where some of the greatest culinary pleasures, such as kway chap (flat noodles with pig's stomach and intestines) and fish-head curry (self-explanatory), come from scraps. I am struck by the American aversion to eating internal organs or to dishes which too closely resemble the animal that bore them. It sometimes strikes me as disguised snobbery. Land of plenty...
...From the inside of the stacks, the perspective is indeed dizzying--perhaps even claustrophobic, for the aisles are only just large enough to admit the motorized lifts that function like mobile, stand-alone elevators...
Even worse is the new caste system: half the teams are out of the running on opening day. They cannot compete financially. Minnesota and Montreal and Kansas City and Florida are minor league teams. They don't just play like minor league teams. They function like them. As soon as their young players develop into stardom, they get bought up and shipped out to the likes of New York and Boston...
Avery said the Trust will look into creating a pilot mentorship program in one science department to explore the logistics of how such a Trust-sponsored initiative might function...