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...assembled an eclectic group of thinkers to identify the trends that will shape our future. It included an Internet entrepreneur who owns a basketball team, a mother who writes about the American family, a specialist in popular culture and an Op-Ed editor at a large city newspaper. We heard a fascinating conversation about how video games are making kids smarter, how consumers are turning into inventors and why some of us are taking longer showers. Listen to most of that discussion at TIME.com Here are some excerpts...
...editors: Professor Laurel T. Ulrich’s op-ed (“The Revolution at Harvard,” Mar. 3) attempts to defend the pedagogy of her department against charges that basic areas of American history, such as the Revolutionary War, are neglected so that faculty members can teach the narrow and sometimes ideologically charged topics central to their own research but peripheral from the point of view of students looking for a broad and general perspective. Ulrich’s piece prompted me to go to the department’s online website to see what?...
...sometimes find myself saying that these scores are sort of low for this college and you can apply but you’re below the average,” said Reider. “I’ve had admissions officers tell me that a girl that applied ED at Harvard is a fine student but her SAT scores were just...
...actually betraying its customers' trust by retaining information on every search and resultant Web-page retrieval. If phone companies logged the content of everybody's phone calls, consumers would be outraged. Perhaps Google's respecting the privacy of its customers is not congruent with the goal of Internet domination. Ed R. Bauman Santa Monica, California, U.S. I trust Google to protect my privacy a whole lot more than I do the occupant of the White House and the corporate chieftains he takes his orders from. Chris Godwin Delaware City, Delaware, U.S. Google is young, small and agile enough to create...
...lonely, struggling actress-in-the-big-city, Reese Holdin (Zooey Deschanel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) returns after many years to her suburban childhood home and estranged father, Don (Ed Harris, “A History of Violence”). A book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock”) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock...