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...religious barriers should continue to serve as model in our time; only through cooperation can we effectively address the hardest problems facing humanity. The Pharaoh who ruled over the Hebrews in ancient Egypt is not gone; he and his armies still exist in various forms for millions of people around the world...
Abroad, populations are working together despite differences in order to improve the world around them, but here in the United States we often forget the value of cooperation. As Martin Luther King Jr. understood, it takes collaboration across the lines that continue to divide us to effectively address the major problems facing the world...
...sign up some schools for a pilot program. "We didn't know anything about what we were doing," Fryer says. They couldn't afford to stay in New York, so they stayed at a hotel in the Meadowlands - a grim tract of wetlands in New Jersey. Then they drove around to pitch the idea to principals...
...find out why their kids' checks had gone up or down. In Chicago, Duncan discovered that the program affected kids in ways he'd never expected. "I remember going to schools and seeing how excited the kids were when they got their checks. They were like pep rallies - but around academic success!" he says. Fryer appeared on The Colbert Report and CNN to talk about the experiment, and that's about when the death threats started. All the while, Fryer refused to speculate about what the data would reveal. He was not all that interested in whether the kids raised...
...what the Chinese think of as a century of humiliation during which nine foreign nations tromped through the country. Americans often ask why Chinese care so much about sovereignty. To which Chinese say, Come back and ask after you've been invaded by nine countries. (See "Could Obama Get Around China's 'Great Firewall...