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...landscape, unfenced and open to all. From the circular stone constructions called talayots, used from about 1500 B.C. as dwelling or burial places by some of the island's earliest settlers, to the mighty T-shaped taulas, hewn from two limestone blocks, these monuments stand mysterious and largely undisturbed--seldom visited and free of entrance fees, guards and ice-cream vendors...
...near the end of my first year at Harvard, I'm beginning to get tired of Annenberg's entrees. But while I've lamented the regular appearance of chicken fingers, chicken a la king, chickwiches and the like, I have seldom suspected that the menu's monotony was detrimental to my personal nutrition. With caloric breakdowns on display and nutrition fun fact cards serving as centerpieces, I always knew the good people at Harvard Dining Services took solicitous interest in my health...
...every area of the economy was open to judicious reform. Even as the rest of Europe toyed with socialism and state ownership, she set about privatizing the nationalized industries, which had been hitherto sacrosanct, no matter how inefficient. It worked. British Airways, an embarrassingly slovenly national carrier that very seldom showed a profit, was privatized and transformed into one of the world's best and most profitable airlines. British Steel, which lost more than a billion pounds in its final years as a state concern, became the largest steel company in Europe...
Ever since I was old enough to stand up straight, I've been stepping onto muddy fields around this time of year. I played baseball through high school, a good-fielding, seldom-hitting infielder who ran the bases well and could occasionally be called on to throw a variety of junk ball pitches at the opposition...
...overall sales dropped 3.4%. Under corporate ownership, the cultural appeal of books began to give way increasingly to bottom-line considerations. Media czars, expecting books to yield the same 15%-to-20% profits as their other content businesses, have become impatient with their publishers' balance sheets, which seldom return more than...