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or to cash-only practices, further contributing to the decline of primary care. (09.12 Passage 2)

2. Ultimately we must get a handle on those issues as well, or a creature that outlived the

dinosaurs will meet its end at the hands of humans, leaving our descendants to wonder how a creature so ugly could have won so much affection. (09. 6 Passage 1)

3. With the dollar slumping to a 26-year low against the pound, already-expensive London has

become quite unaffordable. (08.6 Passage 1)

4. We see our kids’ college background as a prize demonstrating how well we’ve raised them.

(08.6 Passage 2)

5. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect

they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. (07.12 Passage 1)

6. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned me back with his

finger a minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.(07.12 Passage 1)

7. One might well imagine little girls using exceeding polite forms when playing house or

imitating older women- in a fashion analogous to little girls’ use of a high-pitched voice to do “teacher talk” or “mother talk” in role play. (07.6 Passage 2)

8. As a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 19, he ended his work there

disgusted with his students’ overwhelming lust for money. (06.12 Passage 2)

9. Meanwhile, most children are vulnerable to the enormous influence exerted by

grandchildless parents aiming to persuade their kids to produce children. (06.1 Passage 1) 10. This isn’t the stuff of gloomy philosophical contemplations, but a fact of Europe’s new

economic landscape, embraced by sociologists, real-estate developers and ad executives alike. (05.6 Passage 1)

11. Remove the pressure for primary care physicians to squeeze in more patients per hour, and

reward them for optimally managing their diseases and practicing evidence-based medicine. (09.12 Passage2)

12. But economists say families about to go into debt to fund four years of partying, as well as

studying can console themselves with the knowledge that college is an investment that, unlike many bank stocks, should yield huge dividends.(09.6 Passage 2)

13. Sustainable development is applied to just about everything from energy to clean water and

economic growth, and as a result it has become difficult to question either the basic assumptions behind it or the way the concept is put to use. (08.12 Passage 1)

14. We’re pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes

so they can get into the college of our first choice. (08. 6 Passage 2)

15. Unfortunately, few of us have much experience dealing with the threat of terrorism, so it’s

been difficult to get facts about how we should respond. (06. 12 Passage 1)

16. By and large, I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAs see that there is more

to life than money, power, fame and self-interest. (06.12 Passage 2)

17. To defend their profits, the drug companies have warned Canadian wholesalers and

pharmacies not to sell to Americans by mail, and are cutting back supplies to those who dare. (06.6 Passage 2)

18. But an e-mail to the network from Janet Anderson, director of the EPA’s bio-pesticides

division, says “there is no record of a review and/or clearance to field test” the organism. (05.6 Passage 2)

19. Make primary care more attractive to medical students by forgiving student loans for those

who choose primary care as a career and reconciling the marked difference between specialist and primary care physician salaries. (09.12 Passage 2)

20. Does going to Columbia University (tuition, room and board $ 49,260 in 2007-08) yield a 40%

greater return than attending the University of Colorado at Boulder as an out-of-state student ($35,2)? (09.6 Passage 2)

21. From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing

the notion of profit over community interest, Etzioni has seen a lot that’s left him shaking his head. (06.12 Passage 2)

22. Since December, when the report came out, the mayor, neighborhood activists and various

parent-teacher association have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus children’s health and over that, if anything, ought to be done. (09.12 Passage 1)

23. But Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness, and a report by the Fish and Wildlife

Service showed a worrisome drop in the populations of several species of North Atlantic sea turtles, notably loggerheads, which can grow to as much as 400 pounds. (09.6 Passage 1) 24. As with automobiles, consumers in today’s college marketplace have vast choices, and

people search for the one that gives them the most comfort and satisfaction in line with their budgets. (09.6 Passage 2)

25. This is especially true in agriculture, where sustainable development is often taken as the

sole measure of progress without a proper appreciation of historical and cultural perspectives. (08. 12 Passage 1)

26. The key will be to abandon the rather simple and static measures of sustainability, which

centre on the need to maintain production without increasing damage. (08.12 Passage 1) 27. That is a much larger question than what should happen with undocumented workers, or

how best to secure the border, and it is one that affects not only newcomers but groups that have been here for generations. (08.12 Passage 2)

28. And yet there are substantial sectors of the vast U.S. economy--- form giant companies like

Coca-cola to mom-and-pop restaurant operators in Miami---for which the weak dollar is most excellent news. (08.6 Passage 1)

29. I’m now applying to graduate school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where

people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. (07.12 Passage 1)

30. For people who buy and sell companies, or who allocate capital to markets all around the

world, that’s the real nightmare. (07.12 Passage 2)

31. It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent Society by John

Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97. (07.6 Passage 1)

32. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down

because people instinctively--- and wrongly--- labeled government only as “a necessary evil.” (07.6 Passage 1)

33. But the promise is so extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and sometimes

inspires choices that have anti-social consequences, including family breakdown and obesity. (07.6 Passage 1)

34. There is considerable sentiment about the “corruption” of women’s language--- which of

course is viewed as part of thee loss of feminine ideals and morality--- and this sentiment is crystallized by nationwide opinion polls that are regularly carried out by the media. (07.6 Passage 2)

35. This group will still include middle-income seniors on Medicare, who’ll have to dig deeply

into their pockets before getting much from the new drug benefit that starts in 2006. (06.6 Passage 2)

36. Too many vulnerable child-free adults are being ruthlessly manipulated into parent-hood by

their parents, who think that happiness among older people depends on having a grandchild to spoil. (06.1 Passage 1)

37. His glowing descriptions of a classless society where anyone could attain success through

honesty and hard work fired the imaginations of many European readers. (06.1 Passage 2) 38. The promise of a land where “ the rewards of a man’s industry follow with equal steps the

progress of his labor” drew poor immigrants from Europe and fueled national expansion into the western territories.(06.1 Passage 2)

39. While pensioners, particularly elderly women, make up a large proportion of those living

alone, the newest crop of singles are high earners in their 30s and 40s who increasingly view living alone as a lifestyle choice. (05.6 Passage 1)

40. The controversy began on 1 February, when Ingham testified before New Zealand’s Royal

Commission on Genetic Modification, which will determine how to regulate GM organisms. (05.6 Passage 2)

41. Rather than just another weird episode in the town that brought you protesting

environmentalists, this latest drama is a trial for how today’s parents perceive risk, how we try to keep our kids safe--- whether it’s possible to keep them safe--- in what feels like an increasingly threatening world. (09. 12 Passage 1)

42. But as arguments about immigration heat up the campaign trail, we also ought to ask some

broader questions about assimilation, about how to ensure that people, once outsiders, don’t forever remain marginalized within these shores. (08.12 Passage 2)

43. One study found that, other things being equal, graduates of highly selective schools

experienced more job dissatisfaction. (08.6 Passage 2)

44. Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my

profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am. (07.12 Passage 1)

45. This fear mechanism is critical to the survival of all animals, but no one can say for sure

whether beasts other than humans know they’re afraid.

46. He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality

could be applied to places where self-interest flourished. (06.12 Passage 2)

47. Movies, television and video games are full of gunplay and bloodshed, and one might

reasonably ask what’s wrong with a society that presents videos of domestic violence as entertainment. (06.6 Passage1)

48. And when experiments record the time it takes game players to read “aggressive” or

“non-aggressive” words from a list, can we be sure what they are actually measuring? (06.6 Passage 1)

49. Officials from the Food and Drug Administration will argue that Canadian drugs might be fake,

mishandled, or even a potential threat to life. (06.6 Passage 2)

50. Potential grandparents would be reminded that, without grandchildren around, it’s possible

to have a conversation with your kids, who---incidentally---would have more time for their own parents. (06.1 Passage 1)

51. A monthly newsletter would contain stories about overwhelmed parents and offer guidance

on how childless adults can respond to the different lobbying tactics that would-be grandparents employ. (06.1 Passage 1)

52. Kaufmann, author of a recent book called “The Single Woman and Prince Charming,” thinks

this fierce new individualism means that people expect more and more of mates, so relationships don’t last long--- if they start at all. (05. 6 Passage 1)

53. It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it

can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. (07.12 Passage 1)

. That’s why I’ve rid my cupboard of microwave food packed in bags coated with a potential

cancer-causing substance, but although I’ve lived blocks from a major fault line for more than 12 years, I still haven’t bolted our bookcases to the living room wall. (09.12 Passage 1)

55. No, what they fear was that the political challenges of sustaining support for global economic

integration will be more difficult in the United States because of what has happened to the distribution of income and economic insecurity. (07. 12 Passage 2)

56. That’s why Hallowell believes it was okay for people to indulge some extreme worries last fall

by asking doctors for Cipro and buying gas masks. (06.12 Passage 1)

57. Many Europeans now apparently view the U.S. the way many Americans view Mexico---as a

cheap place to vacation, shop and party, all while ignoring the fact that the poorer locals can’t afford to join the merrymaking. (08.6 Passage 1)

58. In some instances, it may be a sign that girls are making the same claim to authority as boys

and men, but that is very different from saying that they are trying to be “masculine”.(07.6 Passage 2)

59. For hundreds of millions of years, turtles have struggled out of the sea to lay their eggs on

sandy beaches, long before there were nature documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to track them, or volunteers to hand-carry the hatchlings down to the water’s edge lest they become disoriented by headlights and crawl towards a motel parking lot instead. (09.6 Passage 1)

60. Those would-be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality

in the boardroom--- and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways. (06. 12 Passage 2)

61. Supporters of the biotech industry have accused an American scientist of misconduct after

she testified to the New Zealand government that a genetically modified (GM) bacterium could cause serious damage if released. (05.6 Passage 2)

62. So if you want to avoid the pan inflicted by the increasingly pathetic dollar, cancel that

summer vacation to England and look to New England. (08.6 Passage 1)

63. In other words, if middle-class Americans continue to struggle financially as the ultrawealthy

grow ever wealthier, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, services, and capital across borders. (07.12 Passage)

. Nevertheless, if Canada-level pricing came to the United States, the industry’s profit margins

would drop and the pace of new-drug development would slow. (06.6 Passage 2)

65. It’s also a potential economic problem, since a declining dollar makes imported food more

expensive and exerts upward pressure on interest rates. (08.6 Passage 1)

66. It’s an outrage that any American’s life expectancy should be shortened simply because the

company they worked for went bankrupt and ended health-care coverage. (07.12 Passage 2) 67. People feel “squeezed” because their rising incomes often don’t satisfy their rising

wants---for bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections. (07. 6 Passage 1)

68. Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the arrival of

widespread affluence suggested utopian possibilities. (07.6 Passage 1)

69. Every American who hopes to “make it” also knows the fear of failure, because the myth of

success inevitably implies comparison between the haves and the have-nots, the stars and the anonymous crowd. (06.1 Passage 2)

70. What’s more, demand for animal products in developing countries is growing so fast that

meeting it will require an extra 300 million tons of grain a year by 2050.(08.12 Passage 1) 71. And just as two auto purchasers might spend an equal amount of money on very different

cars, college students (or, more accurately, their parents) often show a willingness to pay essentially the same price for vastly different products. (09.6 Passage 2)

72. It turns out, according to Griffin, that while we have done a good job of protecting the turtles

for the weeks they spend on land (as egg-laying females, as eggs and as hatchlings), we have neglected the years they spend in the ocean. (09.6 Passage 1)

73. The narrow strips of beach on which the turtles lay their eggs are being squeezed on one side

by development and on the other by the threat of rising sea levels as the oceans warm. (09.6 Passage 1)

74. Although children of Mexican immigrants do better, in terms of educational and professional

attainment, then their parents, UCLA sociologist Edward Telles has found that the gains don’t continue. (08. 12 Passage 2)

75. Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care

physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily. (09.12 Passage 2) 76. In time, Italians, Romanians and members of other so-called inferior races became exemplary

Americans and contributed greatly, in ways too numerous to detail, to the building of this magnificent nation.(08.12 Passage 2)

77. The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but many also set

them up for disappointment. (08.6 Passage 2)

78. Given the recent change of control in Congress, the popularity of measures like increasing the

minimum wage, and efforts by California’s governor to offer universal health care, these guys don’t need their own personal weathermen to know which way the wind blows. (07.12 Passage 2)

79. This highly polite style is no doubt something that young women have been expected to

“grow into”---after all, it is a sign not simply of femininity, but of maturity and refinement, and its use could be taken to indicate a change in the nature of one’s social relations as well. (07.6 Passage 2)

80. Social change also brings not simply different positions for women and girls, but different

relations to life stages, and adolescent girls are participating in new subcultural forms. (07.6 Passage 2)

81. Combine these higher thought processes with our hardwired danger-detection systems, and

you get a near-universal human phenomenon: worry. (06.12 Passage 1)

82. Treatments for chronic conditions can easily top $2,000 a month--- no wonder that one in

four Americans can’t afford to fill their prescriptions. (06.6 Passage 2)

83. The communications revolution, the shift from a business culture of stability to one of

mobility and the mass entry of women into the workforce have greatly wreaked havoc on Europeans’ private lives. (05.6 Passage 1)

84. But last week the New Zealand Life Sciences Network accused Ingham of “presenting

inaccurate, careless and exaggerated information” and “generating speculative doomsday scenarios that are not scientifically supportable”. (05.6 Passage 2)

85. A 2008 study by two Harvard economists notes that the “labor-market premium to skill---or

the amount college graduates earned that’s greater than what high-school graduates earned---decreased for much of the 20th century, but has come back with a vengeance since the 1980s. (09.6 Passage 2)

86. Telles fears that Mexican-Americans may be fated to follow in the footsteps of American

blacks---that large parts of the community may become mired in a seemingly permanent state of poverty and underachievement. (08.12 Passage 2)

87. Using this information, the amygdata appraises a situation --- I think this charging dog wants

to bite me--- and triggers a response by radiating nerve signals throughout the body. (06. 12 Passage 1)

88. Skeptics were dismayed several years ago when a group of societies including the American

Medical Association tried to end the debate by issuing a joint statement: “ At this time, well over 1,000 studies… point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children.”(06.6 Passage 1)

. When Jonathan Freedman, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto, reviewed the

literature, he found only 200 or so studies of television-watching and aggression. (06.6 Passage 1)

90. The notion of success haunts us: we spend millions every year reading about the rich and

famous learning how to “make a fortune in real estate with no money down,” and “dressing for success.” (06.1 Passage 2)

91. The New Zealand Life Sciences Network, an association of pro-GM scientists and

organizations, says the view expressed by Elaine Ingham, a soil biologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, was exaggerated and irresponsible. (05.6 Passage 2)

92. So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of air quality around

the nation’s schools singled out those in the smugly green village of Berkeley, Calif., as being among the worst in the country. (09.12 Passage 1)

93. Industrial pollution in our town had supposedly turned students into living science

experiments breathing in a laboratory’s worth of heavy metals like manganese, chromium and nickel each day. (09.12 Passage 1)

94. The intent of the new Harvard Center on Media and Child Health to collect and standardize

studies of media violence in order to compare their methodologies, assumptions and conclusions is an important step in the right direction. (06.6 Passage 1)

95. The current generation of home-aloners came of age during Europe’s shift from social

democracy to the sharper, more individualistic climate of American-style capitalism. (05.6 Passage 1)

96. A specialist who performs a procedure in a 30-minute visit can be paid three times more than

a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to discuss a patient’s disease.

97. It is clear, for example, that the carbon cost of transporting tomatoes form Spain to the UK is

less than that of producing them in the UK with additional heating and lighting. (08.12 Passage 1)

98. It is one of the great paradoxes of our culture that we believe strongly in the fundamental

equality of all, yet strive as hard as we can to separate ourselves from our fellow citizens. (06. 1 Passage 2)

99. Underlying the hysteria is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable. (08.6

Passage 2)

100. When I think about all the problems of our overpopulated world and look at our boy

grabbing at the lamp by the sofa, I wish I could have turned to Planned Grandparenthood when my parents were putting the grandchild squeeze on me. (06.1 Passage 1)