Word: fielding
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What will a world without teenagers look like? Like the adult world does now. Adolescents will feel the same pressures as their parents do: to succeed financially, to maintain their health, to stay on society's good side. What's more, adolescents will field these pressures using their elders' traditional techniques: spending money, taking medication, contracting for professional advice. The carefree years will become the prudent years, and the prudent years will continue throughout life. That's how it used to be, in the 19th century, and that's how it will be again in the 21st...
Outrageously naive advice for a high-tech future? Think again. It has been field-tested, and it works. All over the country, people leave valuable private papers in unlocked mailboxes along the street. Astonishing! Suburban mail is a vastly easier mark than anything in cyberspace will ever be. But our mailboxes are largely safe because we are largely honest. Some technology pundits have been startled by people's willingness to confide their credit-card numbers to websites. But for years we have been reciting those numbers over the phone. And we have all sorts of other long-standing habits (paying...
Sanchez, who also lobbied for ethnic studies awareness during his years as a Harvard undergraduate, recommended that interested students direct their appeals to specific faculty members and spend their summers contacting other scholars in the field...
Sanchez said this attitude is causing Harvard to fall farther and farther behind other institutions and the field of ethnic studies is not a temporary...
Harvard will not be able to ignore the field's significance forever, Sanchez added...