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Drastic measures had to be taken?and fast. On July 8, President Chen Shui-bian summoned 34 of Taiwan's brightest minds to the presidential palace, put them in a conference room, and told them not to come out until they had a plan for fixing the shuddering economy. The best and brightest dutifully took their places around the mahogany table and Premier Chang Chun-hsiung opened the floor to ideas. One came from banker-tycoon Jeffrey Koo, who said the meeting was a big waste of time because there were too many politicians present. Morris Chang, celebrity chairman...
...there's no shortage of lawyers and doctors today, no doubt because these professions pay salaries that make the years of training worthwhile. Until we raise the salaries of teachers and principals high enough to attract more of the nation's best and brightest, districts need to consider hiring principals like Jennifer Henry who are highly qualified but may not have gone to education school. And then, as New Leaders does (and as most businesses do), pay for their training and development. That's the way to build a profession...
...know that the brightest people may achieve wicked results even when they have the best intentions - sometimes BECAUSE they have the best intentions. We live in a world where people sell their kidneys and other body parts for transplant. It is not difficult to imagine humans being cloned or otherwise conjured, sometime soon, for the sole purpose of repairing or perfecting the natural-born extended family of Dr. Faust...
...Fighting words? You'd think so. "We don't want to get into some slanging match with Dr. Mahathir," said Aussie Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, and the entire nation rallied around that line. TIME surveyed Australia's best and brightest and none volunteered to stand up to the feisty Malaysian. Tart-tongued former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who publicly clashed with Mahathir in the '90s, refused to comment, as did Aussie icon Paul Hogan, nationalist politician Pauline Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged...
...astronomy, as in life, the big events always happen in threes. Today's example: The first full solar eclipse of the millennium occurred on the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice, and when the sun finally goes down tonight, Mars will be at its brightest in over a decade...