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...burly pounds of him) as the latest two-cultures hero, a man of science as well as a man of letters. W.H. Auden detected the budding synthesis in Sacks' work in the early 1970s, when he declared Sacks' book Awakenings a masterpiece of medical literature. Hollywood grasped this high concept two decades later. Awakenings, the movie, starred Robin Williams as the dedicated doctor and Robert DeNiro as a patient temporarily freed from years of catatonia by Sacks' experimental use of the drug L-dopa...
...PRIVATE: This is a variation on the Heritage Foundation idea, but one that would not allow younger and more affluent workers to abandon the system altogether. The basic concept: require workers to place part but not all of their Social Security contribution into a system of mandatory iras. The funds' managers, selected by the government for integrity and competence, would invest the money in corporate stocks and bonds. In most versions, workers would get to choose funds that pursued very conservative or more adventuresome investment strategies...
...cure all the ills of Social Security. "There's a good argument for doing many things at once," says economist Neil Howe. "First, we should be raising the retirement age to 70. Second, there should be an affluence test to shift the system toward a floor-of-protection concept. Third, we should gradually move to a private plan...
...discount the importance of science is even more preposterous. Science's project is revealing the truth that is often hidden from out bare perceptions. in stark contrast, postmodernism's project consists in destroying the very concept of objectivity and truth. And for post-modernism to complete its project, science has to be discarded as having any claim on truth and objectivity...
...concept of boredom developed from being perceived as a moral failure in the 18th century, to an index of class arrogance and inadequate responsiveness to others in 19th century and finally to the universal motivating force it is seen as today. Specifically, Boswell and Johnson warned against the moral failing of dullness; Dickens blamed a morally bankrupt society for the boredom of some of its members and 19th-century women accepted the necessary tedium of their position and resigned themselves to needlepoint; we today think it our right to be entertained and are offended by boring people and things...