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...procedure originally developed in Russia to help patients with legs disfigured by accidents or birth defects, such as dwarfism. While Western hospitals tend to perform the difficult surgery only for medical reasons, the number of Chinese hospitals offering the profitable procedure for cosmetic purposes has mushroomed. Many clinics have year-long waiting lists. The surgery's popularity is abetted by requirements that exclude short citizens from dozens of fields, from flight attendants to government translators. In a country that has hundreds of qualified applicants for every job, height minimums are one way to whittle down the competition...
...most peculiar aspects of the year-long Palestinian uprising is the decimation of the Israeli left it has caused. Both the Israeli and the international press abound with interviews in which ex-leftists denounce their own naivete and compete in attempts to ridicule their once-cherished notion of a “New Middle East.” As a direct result of this development, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a highly controversial politician, is enjoying approval ratings that would make most self-respecting despots blush...
When Palestinian radicals assassinated an Israeli cabinet minister outside his East Jerusalem hotel room last week, they brought the rage of the West Bank and Gaza to a city whose Palestinian neighborhoods have escaped the worst ravages of the year-long Aqsa intifadeh. The tough Israeli response to the murder pushed Palestinian leaders into further bloodthirsty statements that can only perpetuate the cycle of violence. Sari Nusseibeh is one of the few leading Palestinians still prepared to buck the growing extremism and to urge a rejection of the hatred and vengeance that have engulfed the region this past year...
...requirement without further restricting students’ already limited course choices. In order to be most useful in future study, the course should be taught during undergraduates’ first year at the College, when they are already required to take Expository Writing. Instead of adding another required course, the Faculty should remove one literature requirement from the Core or its replacement and integrate Expos into its new year-long course...
...purpose of this change would not be to destroy Expos, but to fulfill it. Although some Expos sections may introduce first-years to difficult and important ideas, many more appear to students as intellectual wastelands, more concerned with the definition of plagiarism or the mechanics found in college-level writing than with the thinking required of college-level argument. A year-long course will offer plenty of time for instruction in writing as well as (or, indeed, as part of) instruction in the texts. A student’s best writing will come when he or she is intimately engaged...