Word: processing
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...usual bill-paying routine leaves--let's face it--room for improvement. I start by writing a check, a process that really begins with trying to find a check. I riffle through desk drawers looking for an envelope. Then I hunt for a stamp with the proper first-class postage. (Jeez! Hard to believe that dog-eared 29[cents] stamp hasn't been good for nine years.) And then, like everyone else, I wait for the U.S. Postal Service to brave snow, rain, heat and gloom of night to deliver my letter--days later...
Thanks to pop culture, Catholics don't have a monopoly on nuns. The religious sisterhood has been widely appropriated as a vehicle for the comic, the dramatic and the sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that no one looks great in a wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love--none...
That idea applies neatly to Men of Honor. It is one of those dramas of peacetime military service in which a determined individual attains what he wants--in this case, master-chief rank and to be a master diver in the U.S. Navy--and in the process surmounts his own shortcomings and the completely predictable prejudice and near deadly hostility of the brass...
...perceive a double standard in what college admissions officials are purportedly looking for, as described in your story on the admissions process at three top schools [EDUCATION, Oct. 23]. On the one hand, the process favors students with "overcome" factors [those who come from families with little education or money], but on the other, evaluators can interpret a teacher's comment of "hardworking and motivated" to mean "the student isn't too smart." As a public high school teacher, I admire a student who has "overcome" a less than genius-level IQ to excel through consistent, honest effort and determination...
...Oscillococcinum began with--in this case, duck heart and liver (no quack jokes, please)--has been diluted beyond all imagining. First, one part of the active ingredient is combined with a hundred parts of solvent. Next, the mixture is shaken and diluted again at one part per hundred--a process that is repeated a total of 200 times. Finally, sugar granules soaked in the resulting solution are enclosed in six capsules a box, good for two days of treatment...