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2004 Text2Over the past century,all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal.But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism.This, for tho

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2004 Text1Hunting for a job late last year,lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder,a job database on the Internet.He searched it with no success but was attracted by the s

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2003 Text4It is said that in England death is pressing,in Canada inevitable and in California optional.Small wonder.Americans' life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past

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2003 Text3In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into supersystems,causing heightened concerns about monopoly.As recently as 1995, the top four rai

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2003 Text2
To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke,
"all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing."
One such cause now seeks

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2003 Text1
Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet.
The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in World War II
and later laid the roots for the CI

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2002 Text 4
The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications
for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.

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2002 Text3
Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return?
Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March,
the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel,up

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2002 Text2
Since the dawn of human ingenuity,
people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work
that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty.
That com

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2002 Text 1
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile,
you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems.
Your humor must be relevant to the audien

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2001 Passage5
When I decided to quit my full time employment
it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend.
A lateral move that hurt my pride

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2001 Passage4
The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed.
The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe
and reaches the emerg

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2001 Passage3
Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers?
The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question.
The orga

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2001 Passage2
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide
--the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor.
And th

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2001 Passage1
Specialisation can be seen as a response to the problem of an increasing accumulation of scientific knowledge.
By splitting up the subject matter into smaller units

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2000 Passage5
If ambition is to be well regarded,
the rewards of ambition--wealth, distinction, control over one's destiny
--must be deemed worthy of the sacrifices made on

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2000 Passage4
Aimlessness has hardly been typical of the postwar Japan whose productivity
and social harmony are the envy of the United States and Europe.
But increasingly the J

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2000 Passage3
When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion,
it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at,
for, however farfetched and unreasonable their

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2000 Passage2
Being a man has always been dangerous.
There are about 105 males born for every 100 females,
but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity,
and amon

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2000 Passage1
A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap,
but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force.
When the United States entered just s

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1999 Passage5
Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares
than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the experiments.
Sir Isaac Newton

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1999 Passage4
When a Scottish research team startled the world by revealing 3 months ago that it had cloned an adult sheep,
President Clinton moved swiftly.
Declaring that he wa

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1999 Passage3
An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students' career prospects
and those arguing for computers in the clas

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1999 Passage2
In the first year or so of Web business,
most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market.
More recently,as the Web proved to be more than

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1999 Passage1
It's a rough world out there.
Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat.
Light up the stove and you could burn down the house.
Luckily,