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...Students of putonghua, or Mandarin Chinese, need to learn not just a romanization system like pinyin but also simplified and complex Chinese characters. While conversational Mandarin can help you get around town, only fluent literacy can lead to an understanding of the Chinese people. Shortly after beginning my study of the language in the U.S. 27 years ago, I discovered that knowing which restroom to use and how to read a menu, a newspaper or (much later) postings on the Internet are critical to fully participating in another culture. And that's not all. Language alone is not enough...
They seem a typical lot, the residents of the apartment complex that's the setting for M. Night Shyamalan's new film, Lady in the Water. Yet many of them are searching for a mission. One, Vick (played by Shyamalan), is composing a tome he calls The Cookbook, which is full of his thoughts on how to make a better world. But Vick's not at all sure about his endeavor. He wonders if he has been wasting his time...
...donors mentioned in the Journal article include Mortimer Zuckerman, who had planned to give $100 million for a neuroscience institute; former Harvard Corporation member Richard A. Smith, who had planned to give $100 million for a 500,000 square-foot science complex in Allston; and David Rockefeller ’36, who had planned to give $75 million for undergraduates in need of financial aid to study abroad...
...believe this dramatic spike in digital participation is, for the most part, sharpening the minds of Generation M, not dumbing them down. But it's hard to see that improvement without the right yardstick. The skills they're developing are not trivial. They're learning to analyze complex systems with many interacting variables, to master new interfaces, to find and validate information in vast databases, to build and maintain extensive social networks crossing both virtual and real-world environments, to adapt existing technology to new uses. And they're learning all this in their spare time...
...enormously complex task. Although Einstein was the better physicist, Hilbert was the better mathematician. So in October 1915 Einstein threw himself into a monthlong frenzy in which he returned to an earlier mathematical strategy and wrestled with tensors, equations, proofs, corrections and updates that he rushed to give as lectures to Berlin's Prussian Academy of Sciences on four successive Thursdays--even as he was struggling to arrange a reconciliation with his sons...