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...choices will be confirmed by oodles of data. Face the facts: John just wants to nail as many women as possible, with little concern for personality or appearance. As for Jane–I'm not sayin' she's a golddigga', but she ain't messin' with no broke, er, mates. Stereotyping & Prejudice–It's not that you hate [insert group here], it's just that you don't know enough of them–and of course you naturally assume that the guy that jacked your iPod by Mather last fall is representative of all those people...
...Imagine the law school using this learning environment to argue a virtual court case or the med school to simulate an ER environment... or social work to counsel an inmate in a prison environment," she says. But, she adds, "the next critical step is to complete the research necessary to determine if this new interactive virtual reality theater is effective in helping people with communication disorders." Meanwhile she has just received a Presidential Research Initiative Grant for $80,000 to create four more virtual reality films to Case Western students...
...negligence on the Gulf Coast? In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night--like men bailing a sinking ship, literally--to rebuild the bulwarks. They have got the flood walls and levees to where they were before Katrina, more or less. That's, er, not enough, we can now say with confidence. But it may be all that can be expected from one year of hustle...
That is good news for TV manufacturers and retailers because people over 50 tend to have more disposable income. But boomers can be cheap, er, price conscious. When a March 2005 Harris Interactive survey asked consumers whether they planned to buy an HDTV within a year, it found a relatively small age gap: 32% of 18-to-27-year-olds said yes, as did 28% of those 40 to 58 and 23% of those 59 or older. But although 29% of consumers in the youngest group said they would be willing to spend...
...constantly evolving standard. Witness the debate over who can and can't use the N-word. McKean says that the next print version of the Oxford American Dictionary will note that tar baby can have derogatory connotations. Which may help public figures avoid becoming ensnared by Br'er Fox more than a century after he set his little trap...