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...case, a simple solution to the "voter schizophrenia" problem is to equip all voting booths with two levers--Republican and Democrat--that would register votes for all the candidates of the respective parties. Although President Bush showed us that desperate measures are always in order in an election year, such action might cheapen the electoral process...
Falco has found, surprisingly, that the most successful classroom programs use techniques like role-playing to equip self-conscious teens with basic ! social skills, such as as how to conduct a conversation or respond to rudeness, as well as how to resist peer pressure to get high. The working assumption is that kids who can handle their anxiety in social situations are less likely to turn to drugs for comfort...
...surprisingly good sense of humor: he was, after all, a Legal Person (Nonhuman) under the famous Hundredth Amendment, and shared -- or surpassed -- almost all the attributes of his creators. But there were whole sensory and emotional areas which he could not enter. It had been felt unnecessary to equip him with smell or taste, though it would have been easy to do so. And all his attempts at telling dirty stories were such disastrous failures that he had abandoned the genre...
...slightly) to picture the family of the future, it was a pretty simple exercise. Take your basic nuclear family: the modern, shop-happy housewife, the corporate-drone dad, two rambunctious kids and a dog; house them in a spacy-looking split-level; power their car with atomic energy; equip their home with a robot maid; and, whammo, you had it -- a space-age Cleaver family named The Jetsons...
...basement--Gut the entire floor and turn it into a big cafe/game room/party space. Equip the space with video games, pool tables, air hockey and other games. A lot of other schools have coffee houses (like the space in the Science Center) where student can go have coffee and hang out. Rudenstine and Jerry Green could stop by for coffee and find out what's going on around campus. Teaching fellows could hold office hours there instead of the smoky lairs of The Coffee Connection and the Pamplona. Some schools sponsor weekly events like folk singing, poetry reading and comedy...