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...Iraq and Guantánamo and global warming, to name but three salient issues - but so did Dwight Eisenhower when he pulled the plug on the British-French-Israeli invasion of Suez, Lyndon Johnson with the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan when he deployed Pershing and cruise missiles despite Continent-wide protests. So maybe if we just wait a while, the ship will right itself, buoyed up by a vast ocean of common experience and belief: a commitment to democracy and free markets, intensifying economic links, a shared culture that ranges from the Magna Carta to Montesquieu to Madonna to Mastercard...
...only have an ambivalent relationship." And she finds its government repulsive. "What puts us [in Europe] off most is its in-your-face hypocrisy. It's this idea of American exceptionalism, the moral talk and the overt and often naïve religiousness." Of course there is a wide spectrum of European opinion toward the U.S., and not all of it is well-informed. But Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, told me that his greatest worry about U.S. foreign policy is that "we're losing the next generation." Opinions don't have to be right...
...that many companies, across a number of sectors, compete in environments not too dissimilar from F1 racing: countless variables and constant volatility. "Businesses make a lot of strategic decisions that involve uncertainties this software can track," says Simon Williams, ceo of SmithBayes. The software's potential corporate uses are wide ranging. Companies can use it to measure the risks and rewards of moving into new markets, bringing out new products, or making capital investments. Myriad data and assumptions can be plugged in: possible new technologies, changes in government regulations, what rivals may do. The one constant most businesses can count...
...University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, in Aurora, Colo., looked at a gene that is believed to code for a piece of protein, called DUF1220, found in areas of the brain associated with higher cognitive function. The gene comes in multiple copies in a wide range of primates--but, the scientists found, humans carry the most copies. African great apes have substantially fewer copies, and the number found in more distant kin--orangutans and Old World monkeys--drops off even more...
...accurate view of textbook costs and options. While it is important for students to comparison shop when purchasing textbooks, publishers are also doing their part to reduce part of the costs of higher education. Today, publishers are offering a variety of options for textbooks and instructional tools at a wide range of prices. Some of these cost-saving innovations by publishers include online texts and e-books, one- or two-color editions, and abbreviated, soft-cover editions. The new and expanding range of technologies are helping more students pass their courses, stay in school and graduate sooner, saving them time...