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...avoided at almost any cost. Yet to do nothing while North Korea transforms itself into a nuclear Wal-Mart would be equally reckless. So would bribing the regime into disarmament with promises of economic aid—an idea the administration is now openly entertaining, and which would teach Kim and other unsavory dictators that nuclear saber-rattling pays...
...bewildering days of Freshman Week teach one a few things about College life. Most important of all, one recalls the continuous warnings about sexual assault, followed in one’s mind by a definite feeling that plagiarism is not acceptable here. Somewhere in there is also a confused message about diversity and respect, but it’s lost in the general cacophony of “Fight fiercely, Harvard” and other notions of dubious utility with which one was equipped. Something, however, which would have helped greatly in adapting to life at this unusual University?...
With all my other birthdays, I've been able to feel that I can change the age and that the age doesn't have to change me. But this one has the ring of mortality. So I hope it will teach me to use my time better...
...There, he saw a pristine stream that had been ruined by runoff from timber clear cutting. Rosgen lost his temper, eventually quit the Forest Service and started his own stream-restoration consulting enterprise. Federal agencies that had ignored his complaints are now among the clients that pay Rosgen to teach employees about doctoring streams. He retreats between trips to his horse-ranch headquarters north of Fort Collins, Colo. These days, the man in the white hat doesn't feel quite so much like the Lone Ranger. --By Pat Dawson
...stereotype of home educators as reclusive, right-wing Christian fundamentalists has been left in the dust. Today’s home educators include self-proclaimed secularists and Muslim immigrants, traditional Catholics and homosexual partners, Ivy League grad students as well as Bostonians convinced that government schools will never teach history except from a “white Anglo-Saxon perspective...