The progression of today's college student is to jettison every interest except one.

The computer revolution, the technocratic, technological revolution, has allowed us to jettison normal shaped buildings, traditionally shaped buildings, in favor of non orthogonal buildings such as this.

We no longer need the heat shield to protect us from the force of atmospheric entry, so we jettison the heat shield, exposing for the first time our lander to the atmosphere of Mars.

Arafat never grew beyond the man who appeared at the United Nations decades ago with both an olive branch and a gun. His unwillingness to jettison terror and choose diplomacy proved his undoing, as he lost legitimacy in the eyes of both Israel and the United States.

Calm economic waters had given the ECB and Trichet a honeymoon until last fall. But, with financial markets now in turmoil and likely to stay that way, the time has come for the ECB to jettison its use of code words a poor substitute for real central bank transparency in any case.