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...extent that Harvard students forget about the rewards that come from basic human interaction, not money or fame, they will have lost something of greater value than their Harvard diploma can earn them. The census conclusions should remind us to step back and reconsider our life goals. The seniors who will soon be graduating will enter a world where not every achievement can (or should) be listed on a resume...
...Tech had received Fs on the state's report card for four consecutive years. Three-quarters of the students who began as freshmen never made it to graduation. Fewer than 25% of sophomores passed the state's basic-skills exam in math. Failure had become routine, expected and excused. After all, three-fourths of Fox Tech students are poor enough to receive subsidized lunches. More than half the students work at night to help support their families. Nearly 100 have their own children to support...
...measured his "good heterosexual functioning" with decidedly subjective standards--asking the respondents if their heterosexual experiences were satisfying. More rigorous studies might have looked for signs of physical arousal in the presence of various stimuli. What's more, his work has not yet been published or peer reviewed, two basic stripes that studies usually must earn to be taken seriously...
...work, however, does feel oddly out of step with mainstream thinking. Most scientists stress that everything from brain architecture to environment help determine sexuality. While gays may be able to swear off one kind of sex and grimly slog away at another, that doesn't alter their basic orientation. "It's possible to change almost any human behavior," says geneticist Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health. "But changing the underlying mechanism is a different matter." A study presented at the same convention addressed the same topic and found that of 202 homosexuals who sought to change, 178 failed...
...where the caribou roam and building new refineries and power plants. Only a few decorative items, like turning animal waste into energy, remain. To rationalize building 1,300 new power plants, Cheney cites Energy Department studies showing demand outstripping supply. Yet studies out of the same department suggest that basic conservation measures could cut growth in demand close to half...