Word: complexities
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There will be no easy answers to such a complex question. International regulation and monitoring must play a greater role, and regional organization must be empowered to resolve some of these issues on a smaller scale. The future will hold the opportunity to learn the lessons of failed policies in the world's current stalemates...
Such bureaucratic decisions may be best kept at the local level, where officials are better equipped to weigh the complex mix of a community and individual interests. Consider the case of a Jewish student in Gulfport, Miss., who was told he could not wear a Star of David to class. School officials said the star was sometimes used by gangs, and they did not want any such imagery in classes. The case infuriated supporters of the Religious Liberty Protection Act. Once again, however, no federal intervention was required. The local school board decided after more careful consideration to reverse itself...
...other hand, there are specific subsystems that handle shapes, textures, sounds, faces, names--even distinct systems to remember nouns vs. verbs. All of these different types of memory are ultimately stored in the brain's cortex, within its deeply furrowed outer layer--a component of the brain dauntingly more complex than comparable parts in lesser species. Experts in brain imaging are only beginning to understand what goes where, and how the parts are reassembled into a coherent whole...
Linux and the open-source movement that spawned it are among the most exciting and important things going on in the software world today. But the setup is just too complex for the average person. A few weeks after my column ran, I had to swap the PC I was using for another one that didn't have Linux, and I still couldn't install the version from Red Hat without tech support...
...Morissette and Courtney Love may be yesterday's news, but that hasn't stopped gamemakers from developing the first titles to cash in on female rock sensations. Um Jammer Lammy for the Sony PlayStation ($35) lets players tap their game pad in time with the beat of progressively more complex sounds. (It's harder than you think.) For more of a story line, Lego Friends ($30, available mid-September) lets girls six and up form their own virtual band, compose songs and try to win a competition. Rock...