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...school system. It would be most helpful in particularly the math and sciences. The city and Harvard could organize a program to allow Harvard math and science professors to spend, literally, a year in our school system, with science and math teachers. The goal would be to enrich the teaching...
...make the voluntary suspension permanent and get Iran to stop making nuclear fuel. The Europeans hope to persuade Tehran by guaranteeing that they will provide supplies. But no matter how diligently Iran respects NPT rules or how well monitored its program is, if it retains the capacity to enrich uranium, it can revert to the bomb business on short notice unless the facilities are completely dismantled...
...provide sensible labor protections for their workers are not going to feel any more pressed about providing the public infrastructure and services that would raise their citizens’ living standards. After all, why divert resources that they can use to strengthen their control over their citizens and enrich themselves? The now deposed Suharto regime in Indonesia, for example, was notorious for squandering public funds on subsidies for businesses owned by President Suharto’s children. Developed nations like the United States ought to donate money to cover these gaps—not to the governments, which will siphon...
...course, this goes against our ingrained tight-fistedness when it comes to helping the global poor. But in fact, trade enthusiasts ought to recognize that in the long run, such aid would serve U.S. national interests. By choosing to stand by while corrupt regimes enrich and empower themselves instead of promoting growth and development, we are missing opportunities to gain productive trade partners and new markets for our own exports...
...prevent juvenile delinquency and keep kids safe. At the same time, globalization was heating up, and education experts felt that American schoolchildren needed to work harder to compete. The result: a cottage industry of organized after-school pursuits--lessons and tutors and clubs and teams--to baby-sit and enrich. Then, thanks to overzealous parents, things got out of hand, says William Doherty, a University of Minnesota professor of marriage and family therapy. "Adult notions of hypercompetition and overscheduling have created a culture of parenting that's more akin to product development, and it's robbing families of time together...