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What was unexpected about the experience? I was really surprised about how much information is gathered about children in the UK and stored online. Schools are regularly fingerprinting kids in the UK to allow access to libraries - but still, its fingerprinting. The really terrifying thing I found is that I feel like we're normalizing our kids, both through these activities and things like iPhones and Facebook apps. We're normalized to living an utterly exposed life. But there's value in privacy - its a tremendously uplifting and strengthening feeling, to feel like you can withdraw. Not because...
...debates of the left and the right, between business leaders and environmentalists, between those who would claim drilling is a cure-all and those who claim it has no place," Obama said in a speech at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington. "This issue is just too important to allow our progress to languish while we fight the same old battles over and over again...
...part to blame for accepting athletic prodigies with the knowledge that they will leave after one year—taking them for athletic success and not academic potential—they are not the root of this issue. As backward as it may sound, the NBA should re-allow players to enter the league directly from high school. Rather than letting the small number of high-profile players publicly act as college students for a year and thus set an example to young fans that college is a one-year stop, let them go directly to the professional careers that...
...groups affected at the Medical School include bioengineering researchers, stem cell scientists, and the department of systems biology—which currently has sufficient space but needs to relocate to allow for expected growth over the next decade...
Bloom and his administration then took steps to revise stipulations on future grants and donations to allow the creation of reserve funds that have grown large enough over the past few years for the school to avoid severe cutbacks in the wake of the economic recession...