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...producing some of the smartest and most hardworking students of any country in the world, many of whom later seek appointment at elite universities (including Harvard) in math and the sciences. But at its core, Indian education praises by-rote learning, conformity, and standardization. It is an assembly-line approach in an industrializing country to produce not only goods, but its human investments as well. The most popular fields are the pigeonhole ones—with outsourced jobs waiting at the end, positions lacking creativity and advancement but with set pay and an accompanying glass ceiling...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: (e.) None of the above | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...arrondissement, the Centre Pompidou, definitely had tourists huffing and fanning the sculptor’s hanging masterpieces, but the exhibition was not at all limited in scope to Calder’s famous mobiles. Instead, the eight main rooms of the show offer a very diverse and multi-media approach to Calder’s oeuvre that make the blockbuster Kandinsky exhibition on the other side of building look almost monotonous...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer | Title: Thinking in Wire | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...originally called the National Association to Aid Fat Americans. Engineer Bill Fabrey had tired of the discrimination his overweight wife faced and started the group as an advocate for the big-boned. But NAAFA remained at the periphery for years, prompting some members to argue for a more confrontational approach. Taking their cue from the radical left, several West Coast members split from NAAFA and in 1972 founded the Fat Underground - which espoused, without irony, the belief that social pressure and overwhelming medical opinion were perpetuating a campaign of "genocide" against fat people. (Read "Why Are Southerners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fat-Acceptance Movement | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...fact, you seem to be putting more emphasis on cost-containment. So that's been really consistent with your approach to this issue since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Exclusive Interview with President Obama | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...think other than that we've been pretty consistent about how I think we need to approach the problem. And by the way, I in no way want to suggest that cost is more important than coverage. My point has been that those two things go hand in hand. If we can't control costs, then we simply can't afford to expand coverage the way we need to. In turn, if we can expand coverage, that actually gives us some leverage with insurers or pharmaceutical industry or others to do more to help make the health care system more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Exclusive Interview with President Obama | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

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