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...Amrock ’08 said that most college students do not come in contact with some of the critical languages as part of their high school experiences, making them less likely to pursue the languages in college.“Supply isn’t meeting the demand. They need to be giving some sort of incentive in order to cover all their bases,” he said.Lea H. Broh ’08 said she supported any reason to learn languages.“Any initiative that gets people studying foreign languages is a good thing...
...Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) did not hide his skepticism over those answers, and engaged in a testy exchange with Specter over his demand to see the Library of Congress papers pertaining to CAP. "We are entitled to this information,? said Kennedy. ?It deals with the fundamental issues of equality and discrimination.... I'd want to give notice to the chair that you're going to hear it again and again and again and we're going to have votes of this committee again and again and again until we have a resolution." Specter shot back: "Well, Senator Kennedy...
...does anyone really want to be brilliant all the time? Though heightened intelligence would seem to be a universally desirable goal, not all tasks and stages of life demand the amped-up cognitive speed and processing power the new regimens and medications may make possible. Becoming a parent, for example. I read somewhere once that many mothers and fathers suffer a rapid, appreciable drop in IQ after their babies are born. This, if true, is a huge gift from nature. Diapering, feeding and comforting little ones demands dumb endurance, in my experience, not penetrating cleverness. Thinking too clearly while cleaning...
...effects are that mild, what are ethicists so worried about? Almost everything. "As our society becomes more competitive and specialized," says Chatterjee, "even the perception that these medicines provide a slight advantage can drive demand." If new and more effective drugs have few immediately discernible side effects, patients will probably pressure doctors to prescribe them. And as their usage spreads, people may feel forced to take them just to keep up. Would the means to pay for them determine who gets them? Would the rich get smarter and the poor fall further behind? What effects would such drugs have...
...relatively secure financial instruments: mutual funds, stocks, bonds, even abstract art. Richer Indians are, indeed, diversifying their investments. "At the top end of society, yes, [gold] consumption is beginning to decrease," says K. Shivram, a vice president of the World Gold Council in Madras. The current surge in demand is being driven by the middle class and even by the poor?evidence of an economic revolution taking place at the lower levels of Indian society...