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Lately, there has been a trend in America that seems to be shifting this country away from the true ideals of capitalism and democracy, namely that everyone has an equal opportunity to excel, and that this country is run for the people and by the people. The House of Representatives voted last month to curb Medicare spending by $270 billion; welfare cuts and other disagreements between President Clinton and Congress led Tuesday to a government shutdown, sending home 800,000 civil service worker...
...victory was also the Crimson's first of the season on artificial turf. Its home field is grass. About 40 percent of the teams nationwide play on astroturf, so teams must be able to excel on both...
WHILE PUBLIC OPINION seems polarized between sink-or-swim nostalgics and politically correct diversitarians, serious research increasingly points toward a consensus: children learn English faster and are more likely to excel academically if they are given several years of instruction in their native language first. In a 1991 study endorsed by a National Academy of Sciences research team, David Ramirez, now a professor at California State University, followed 2,000 Latino schoolchildren. "It is a myth that if you want children to learn English, you give them nothing but English," says Ramirez. Both English-immersion and bilingual methods will fail...
...evolutionary psychiatrist Randolph Nesse has noted, television can also distort our self-perception. Being a socially competitive species, we naturally compare ourselves with people we see, which meant, in the ancestral environment, measuring ourselves against fellow villagers and usually finding at least one facet of life where we excel. But now we compare our lives with "the fantasy lives we see on television," Nesse writes in the recent book Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, written with the eminent evolutionary biologist George Williams. "Our own wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters can seem...
...think that our expectations have really dropped and that's not fair to young people," Galluccio said. "We need to expect the most from our young people and give them the opportunities to excel...