Where is balance Academic priorities 301

i have restricted followups to afc

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the children subject to it might like a system that emphasized what they were interested in, but no one asks them mebbe children are thought not to be old enuf to know whats good for them

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over the years i developed a blank and vacant stare which, coupled with a certain slackness of the jaw, usually ensured that little attention was paid to me

biting my tongue also helped, especially in holding my peace

watching people actually think is a marvellous thing, but i find that people rarely think deeply about anything. including myself. one of my professors in graduate school had a very slow clbuttroom style, and my clbuttmates thought he was boring. i did not. his measured pace was because he was actually thinking about his sentences, and his answers. i remember that once he took several minutes to respond to a question of mine; the question and the answer led me to a great deal of rewarding research, altho i am afraid i have not yet utilized any of the minor results i obtained...

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and i must now pause to think about the three sentences above... thanx

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bravo

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you may have read an article called 'The Oil We Eat' by Richard Manning, in Harper's Magazine. the URL is i understand that you have some limitations in accessing the web, so i should be glad to email you the article in text format if you cannot find it in the newsgroups (it was posted in several newsgroups including alt.agriculture) while some of the polemic in that article might be debatable, i think that the main thesis is correct: that fossil fuels are central to the production and distribution of food. therefore when prices of such fuels rise, prices of food will follow. this will result in considerable dislocation, and will affect the smallest of us the most. children are very small, and their needs rarely concern our rulers.

potable water is even more of a pressing concern, with aquifers dropping by meters per year, coupled with increasing salt water infiltration into coastal areas as the ocean inexorably rises

you were prescient