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...other method involves actively becoming a part of the structure which the government refuses to implement. Plenty of people seem to care about certain policies more than enough to complain about who is in office on the basis of those policies. But relatively few complainers move much toward becoming human replacements for the dollars which a new budget has snatched--or will snatch--away from public programs and support structures. In my view, there are two kinds of political disillusionment--disillusionment accompanied by helplessness, which I came to know all too well and disillusionment accompanied by corrective action, even...
...week, CaP CURE, with the help of a star-studded scientific advisory board, had awarded $22 million in grants to hundreds of researchers in the U.S. and abroad--making it the world's largest private source of funding for prostate-cancer research, second only to the NCI. Yet researchers complain that much more financing is needed. A CaP CURE brochure points out that while the number of deaths from prostate cancer is about the same as for aids and breast cancer, the Federal Government provides $1.3 billion for aids research and $313 million for breast cancer but only $59 million...
...should adopt within two years. Business leaders, in turn, will develop their own strategies, such as requesting high school transcripts from job seekers or establishing partnerships with schools. TIME'S Elizabeth Gleick says critics of the summit, like the National School Boards Association and the National Parent Teacher Association, complain that too few teachers were invited. That's how summit organizers wanted it: "By combining a governor and a CEO from each state, they were hoping to get the biggest bang for the buck," she says. In theory, those attending would return to their home states and consult with teachers...
Though Turing generally shied away from such metaphysical questions, his 1950 paper did touch briefly on this issue. Some people, he noted, might complain that to create true thinking machines would be to create souls, and thus exercise powers reserved for God. Turing disagreed. "In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping his power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children," Turing wrote. "Rather we are, in either case, instruments of his will providing mansions for the souls that he creates...
Despite a win on Tuesday, the Harvard men's volleyball team had reason to complain...