Word: self-interest
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...many labs I go by where there's dust that high on the computer keyboard," Watson says. "What we haven't done is give kids a reason to get excited about using the computer." And the only reason that works, in the Watson world view, is naked self-interest. He may be right. There's certainly no dust on the keyboards at John O'Connell high school's computer lab. It was packed with students for six hours of voluntary, credit-free SAT prep one baking-hot San Francisco Saturday afternoon in November. Diana Valdivia, a junior, signed...
...Self-interest, when it comes down to it, is the strongest reason for any of us to join the digital era. In programs like Achiever.com and the Cisco Networking Academies, there's self-interest on both sides. The companies help create a skilled workforce that can install and maintain its products--and make money too. The students get their lives on track. In Silicon Valley this is known as "philanthropic entrepreneurialism," and it looks very much like the wave of the future. There are still a lot of disaffected people with a lot to prove to the world. Given means...
...country that will find little to cheer about in the Saudis' latest rescue of Western consumers is Israel. While it's in Saudi Arabia's self-interest to help out the West in this instance - both to maintain stability in world oil prices and to deny a victory to its belligerent Iraqi neighbor - Riyadh also has some demands of its own. The Saudi leadership is reportedly outraged by Israel's reaction to the latest Palestinian uprising, and wants to see the U.S. play a more evenhanded role in the region. Crown Prince Abdullah, de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia since...
...recent weapons orders worth $3 billion from India and $1 billion from China, and it becomes clear that there's considerable material incentive for Moscow to ignore Washington's objections. Indeed, a case can be made that even Russia's efforts to end sanctions against Iraq are motivated by self-interest - Moscow claims the economic blockade of Iraq has cost Russia $30 billion in revenues from arms sales and oil supplies...
...perhaps because the election is so close, and not in spite of that--are imperfectly content to see whoever emerges emerge. America has one great ghost in the attic, who whispers the name America in the middle of the night, to remind us that--evidence of individual competitiveness and self-interest to the contrary notwithstanding--somewhere in the unconscious heart, a nation comes together. If that were not so, we could never make it through times like this with such blithe self-confidence...