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...publications such as Scientific American and The New York Review of Books. In an awful move that was the result of bad editing or, more likely, sheer laziness, Facing Up was left as a group of essays rather than a condensed work. The negative results of this are threefold: overwhelming repetition of the same basic facts; an even more substantial amount of completely irrelevant material; and absence of the actual essay or letters Weinberg is responding to, which often renders the author’s points utterly useless for lack of context. In fact, for those interested in the meat...
Cheever’s thesis seems to be that the status of Arabs is analogous to that of the Native Americans. Or did Cheever mean Palestinian Arabs? He seems unable to choose. Cheever’s reasons for this comparison are threefold: both groups were “displaced” by some other power; both groups are stereotyped in movies; and both groups represent discrete, disjointed factions which cannot accurately be classified together...
...actively considering suspending bonus and incentive pay this year, according to a survey by WorldatWork, an association of human-resources professionals based in Scottsdale, Ariz. Such "non-salary compensation" represents a far bigger share of total pay for workers at practically all levels than ever before, increasing nearly threefold since the last time the U.S. economy was in a slump this deep...
...Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana's Gemsbok National Park to create the Kgalagadi - meaning "land of thirst" - a 38,000-sq-km wilderness in which tourists and animals can move freely across the two countries' borders. Since the park's formal opening last May, tourist traffic has increased threefold to around 150,000 visitors a year. A Peace Parks Club offers tours that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced San, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...
...insight guided it through its greatest period of growth; in Washington, D.C. During Ripley's two-decade reign as secretary, the Smithsonian founded seven research facilities and eight museums, including the U.S. capital's most popular, the Air and Space Museum. The number of annual visitors increased nearly threefold to 30 million...