After a half century of observation, examination, and consultation, as a classroom teacher, university lecturer, academic advisor, pastoral counselor, and ER crisis counselor, I have concluded that our image filled minds are generated as complex mental holograms by our equally complex, functioning brains.

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Lurie, 59, began his professional career as a social policy teacher at Boston University.

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He stayed close to government, but kept his independence, most recently as a teacher at Johns Hopkins University.

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Mr Hamilton, of Offerton Close, Sunderland, a former technician at Newcastle University's Medical School, had retrained as a teacher and did supply work throughout the North East.

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Before being plucked from obscurity, he had enjoyed a respectable career as a chemistry teacher (sulphur dioxide was his speciality) at a technical university in the grim industrial south.

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The same year, Mr Kaczynski worked as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was widely recognised as a teacher likely to get tenure.

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He said Amber had been forced to put her ambitions to become a modern languages teacher on hold as the appropriate university courses were not offered in Chile.

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Outside the U.S. Consulate in Shenyang, a teacher at Liaoning Normal University who gave her name as Guo prepared to apply for a visa.

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