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...major goal of education is to ensure that students are sufficiently prepared for the world outside the confines of their schools. Segregating girls from boys means that students of opposite sexes are deprived of the opportunity to collaborate on projects, feed off each other’s ideas, and learn from each other. Critics of single-sex education worry that boys who are never forced to work on tasks with girls will have problems later in life working under a female boss or alongside female coworkers. This concern is certainly valid, and the effect cuts both ways: Being perpetually separated...
...Facebook's news feed becoming so introspective? "It's going to be more about the message you want to send to others than what you're doing at that very moment," says Meredith Chin, Facebook's manager of corporate communications. Or as the company described it in a blog post: "One way to think about this is as a timeline - or a stream. As people share more ... the pace of updates accelerates." Sort of like those annoying tickers that run across the bottom of cable news channels, but all the news is about people who never get off their couches...
...When growing tobacco started to become less profitable for farmers, they rotated some portion of their land to growing corn. Between feed and the ethanol industry they did well. As a matter of fact, the ethanol industry had a supplier and that allowed the alternative energy movement to grow into an industry. Alternative use of assets is central to a number of industries that need to be revitalized. The car business has a chance to use its strengths to gain back some of its vitality permanently if it can make this transition...
...asked [Pike] to bring a little more energy to the table this year,” said Tillman. “If he can do that, our guys around him will pick up and feed off of that...
...arrival of a new President tossed some tinder onto the cold coals of economic confidence; now Orszag and others inside the Administration are trying to feed the fire. And in spite of Obama's insistence that his team must walk and chew gum at the same time - make that "run and chew gum," his advisers recently amended - it is starting to register that nothing would stoke the flames better than a credible strategy for cleaning up the banks. As a senior Administration official puts it, "The money is less important than restoring a sense of confidence." (See pictures...