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The organization also sponsors or cosponsors more than 300 international technical conferences each year . No other place provides as much difference in mindset or dramatizes more vividly the resilience of class . Once let us see that sin is far viler , and far nearer to us , and sticks more closely to us than we supposed , and we shall be led , I trust and believe , to get nearer to Christ . USGS operates and maintains more than 85 percent of stream-gaging stations nationwide , including 98 percent of gages used for real-time forecasting . Despite prejudices and misunderstandings , Jane eventually grows to love the people around her – traders , sailors , Chinook women and men – and finds more to life in this isolated wilderness than she was able to discover in the city of Philadelphia . Washington Post : " For environmental , economic and strategic reasons , Americans will be better off in the long term if Congress drops the idea of drilling in the Arctic refuge , overcomes its divisions on electricity grid modernization - - putting the issue in a separate bill , if necessary - - and finds more ways to use less oil " ( March 23 ) . The library system holds over 2,500,000 cataloged volumes , more than 2,300,000 units of microform , and maintains more than 29,000 current serials and roughly 20,000 machine-readable database files .