Word: rarer
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However, no one told me that I would spend the next two years of my life cooped up on Harvard’s campus, occasionally making it to the stores in the Square or the even rarer journey to Central or Porter Square...
With its forest of neon-emblazoned high-rises, Shanghai's Xuhui district embodies the country's dazzling economic development. But Xuhui is profiting from an even rarer commodity: political reform. Led by district Mayor Sun Chao, Xuhui's nearly 1 million inhabitants can participate in town-hall-style meetings to discuss a wide range of concerns, such as an innovative parole program and the location of a new garbage dump. "Before, leaders just made decisions," Sun says. "Now we have public hearings to allow ordinary people to debate things." That idea may sound suspiciously like democracy. But Sun, a smooth...
...Dean has a nose for detail. The references to pop songs and TV programs sometimes have the whiff of the library about them. But the details that matter - the inner turmoil of the compromised prison officer, the mother who wants a son, not a hero - smell of real and rarer history. From all her interviews, Dean concluded that "Northern Ireland is very much like, 'You don't come from here, so you can't understand.'" At a time when political polarization seems to be once again clouding the peace process, Dean's "ignorance" sheds welcome insight on what...
...unnecessary episiotomy each year. There may be cases in which the procedure is called for--the one you will hear most commonly is fetal distress, which necessitates delivering the baby quickly, before a woman has had time to fully dilate--but according to Hartmann, they are a lot rarer than many obstetricians think...
It’s hard to know what to say to either of these people. It’s rare, I imagine, that owners of vandalized property get to question the vandals, and rarer still that when they do the only power they possess is the ability to ask nicely for reprieve. I expect that “Unknown Core” won’t bother us anymore—ultimately, they (college students themselves, if I understood them correctly) sympathized with our frustrations. And if we’re ever attacked by someone with more political intentions...