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...there will be some abuse, as there was in Eliot’s day, but as Eliot put it, “I care no[t]… for the young men who have no capacity for an intellectual life.” Such people will always exist, and barring a change in the current pool of students, there will always be slack students. But even abuse is likely to be far less than the kind in Eliot’s day. For one thing, we have better students; meritocracy has ensured this. For another, we have mitigating factors...
...told some of the procession's expected participants, especially those from flashy Tel Aviv, to tone down sexy costumes. "We're not having floats or naked men flashing their asses," she says. "We just want to tell people: 'Hey, we're here. We have a right to exist...
...infant death in the U.S., accounting for eight percent of the infant mortality rate. More than 57 children die of SIDS out of every 100,000 live births. The new research gives a biological basis for “all the risk-reduction strategies” that currently exist for SIDS, including having children sleep on their back, said David S. Paterson of Children’s Hospital Boston and a co-author of the study. “The brain stem works as an alarm, a kind of control and integration center, for determining physiological changes in the body...
...have grown to include nearly two million members worldwide. “At the turn of the century there was a legacy in certain areas of anti-Semitism or reluctance towards integration,” Brewer said, but added, “that sort of legacy does not exist at all anymore...
...region with which they're familiar that has elections, a parliament, a president and so on, is Iran. And many of the institutions in Iran, since the revolution, have a dual character. So Hakim and Sadr think of their militias as analogous to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which exist as a paramilitary institution separate from and not entirely integrated with the regular military - and which can be deployed and manipulated by various charismatic figures, as President Ahmedinajad has done to help get himself elected...