Word: vitalizing
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When we, as readers, do not even have the factual information as a necessary starting point for rational discourse, we are vulnerable to believing propaganda and false reporting. And by participating and encouraging the verbal battle, the press is doing its part to destroy the now vital peace process. Reading The Crimson, talking with West Bank settlers and Palestinian rights activists and visiting army bases where boys barely eighteen carry M-16s, have made me less than optimistic about the chances for peace in the Middle East...
...financial incentive to encourage a professor's retirement has caused quite a bit of controversy in the ranks of the Faculty. One SPH professor called the practice "morally wrong." However, we believe that the use of financial incentives is a good way of keeping the University vital...
...mourn the loss of forced retirement, for what keeps an academic institution vital but new ideas? New generations require new blood. Since we will not see mandatory retirement again, however, we urge the University to recommend retirement to all professors over 75, and to encourage them to retire with financial incentives...
...have a lot of Red Cross Buddhism. I have no problem with the Red Cross. But the question is, Will any of the three Buddhisms survive Protestantism because of [the strength of that] culture?" If they fail, she thinks America will have lost out on their most novel and vital contribution. "What can Buddhism provide this country that it doesn't have? The teachings on mind and the Four Noble Truths. There are enormous absences in the wisdom of this culture...
Some 50,000 of the cash cards, also known as "smart cards," are being mailed to consumers this week by Chase Manhattan and Citibank. They look like conventional credit, debit or ATM cards, but there is a vital difference: a tiny chip that can electronically store money. A consumer first takes the card to an ATM and downloads, say, $100 onto the chip. When the card is inserted into a terminal, the chip deducts the price of a newspaper or chewing gum from the total stored on the card and adds it to the virtual cash stored in the terminal...