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...bogus choice, but if voters had to decide between letting a suspected terrorist run free, and sending him to a faraway place where a moral principle is violated in the hopes of getting information that might prevent a bombing, that's not much of a contest. This may explain why public reaction to the Marty report has been relatively muted. Despite Spain's prominent role in the report, for example, only one of its national newspapers put the story on Page One. In Germany, the World Cup trumps just about anything. That's too bad. It could be productive...
...take refuge in my own solitude. Uninterrupted by the pressure of constant phone-checking or e-mailing, we are forced to breathe and think and rest. As it stands, it seems unnatural to want to be out of the loop for a bit; people seem unnerved if I explain that I went “missing” for a while because my phone was dead. From what precisely I was missing is unclear; I was enjoying myself by myself. Yet it was but decades ago that it wasn’t considered curious behavior to want to be alone...
...alumni after today’s ceremonies—have a great opportunity. Continue to apply pressure, but make it overt and conspicuous, like the pressure recently and effectively applied by the city government. And make it on the side of human rights and basic liberties. Write Harvard and explain to them that there’ll be no donations from you until it is clear the money will not be invested in companies or banks that do business with South Africa. Write Harvard and explain that, as women students, you felt cheated by the shortage of women professors...
...they’re beating them. Goldin and Katz attribute this to the fact that boys are more likely than girls to have behavioral problems.The much higher rate of disciplinary and behavior problems for males and the far lower amount of time they spend on homework can explain almost the entire female advantage in college attendance for the high school class of 1992, adjusting for family background, test scores, and high-school achievement, according to Goldin and Katz’s research.One year after University President Lawrence H. Summers pledged to spend $50 million on an effort that is?...
...Cabana and his colleagues believe, is that parents are bombarded by television ads that encourage them to buy products such as air and carpet fresheners, ionizers and other remedies that are often expensive but medically unnecessary. And doctors may not always take the time, or have the time, to explain to parents what will and won't work in their child's particular case. For example, allergies are usually a problem for older children with asthma, while kids 5 and younger more frequently have trouble with viral respiratory infections. So make sure you understand what's really triggering your child...