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Researchers have devised other tools to look at more transient moods. Csikszentmihalyi pioneered a method of using beepers and, later, handheld computers to contact subjects at random intervals. A pop-up screen presents an array of questions: What are you doing? How much are you enjoying it? Are you alone or interacting with someone else? The method, called experience sampling, is costly, intrusive and time consuming, but it provides an excellent picture of satisfaction and engagement at a specific time during a specific activity...
None of that has stopped an array of private companies from trying to get a piece of the new Texas road-building boom. Sometime in December, the Texas Transportation Commission, a five-member board appointed by the Governor, will award a $24 billion contract to develop proposals for the TTC's first multimodal corridor--a 600-mile stretch from Mexico to Oklahoma needed for NAFTA trucking and rail. In the running are three consortiums, one headed by the California-based Fluor Corp., another that includes Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary and a third headed by the Spanish tollway operator...
Destination-U.com joins a vast array of free and fee-based college-search services available to anxious families during the complex and competitive admissions process. The College Board, for example, straightforwardly profiles more than 3,500 colleges, while the irreverent Princeton Review ranks everything from quality of campus food to tolerance of alternative lifestyles. Destination-U.com aims to differentiate itself from the pack by tailoring its advice to the applicant's personality. For a one-time fee of $49.95, it canvasses the student's attitudes on tuition cost, class size, campus setting, social atmosphere, academic environment and a host of other aspects...
...network of wealthy progressives known as the “Phoenix Group” which has set about constructing a new extra-party infrastructure—potentially everything from think tanks to new media to get-out-the-vote operations—to begin to compete with the formidable array of institutions built by the right over the past few decades. These new progressive donors haven’t dropped their plans since the election. In fact, they’ve institutionalized their efforts into a new organization called the Democracy Alliance...
...teaching and to the diversity of perspectives in our intellectual debate, and we will not find the most excellent people if we are not drawing on all segments of our society.” By this reasoning, one cannot reasonably deny the need for the intellectual diversity that an array of different political perspectives brings without denying the need for any kind of diversity. Students need to be exposed to different ideas and different ways of thinking...