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...your research, you found vestiges of this warped way of thinking in an unexpectedly modern setting: school shootings. Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a Finnish schoolboy who murdered eight people at his high school in November 2007, wrote on his blog that "stupid, weak-minded people are reproducing ... faster than the intelligent, strong-minded" ones. Auvinen thought through the philosophical implications of Darwin's work and came to the conclusion that human life is like every other type of animal life: it has no extraordinary value. The Columbine killers made similar arguments. One of the shooters, Eric Harris, wore a "Natural Selection...
...their study, Barro and McCleary found that high levels of belief in heaven and hell led to more economic growth within developing countries, whereas higher levels of church attendance actually had a negative effect on economic productivity...
...same student is still asking the same questions. Is there a point to this? FAS IT found no evidence of hacking. We get it. Admirably, Dean Marine and Flores are keeping their cool...
Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Student Life Susan Marine explains how the UC voting system works. She reads a long list of FAS IT reports, which concludes that the security scans and vulnerability assessment scans "found no significant issues" or "evidence of suspicious activity." Basically, information security was unable to conclude that the Audit Log had been modified...
...That's not just a concern for the Sunshine State, which now has one of the nation's highest jobless and home-foreclosure rates. Earlier this year, the Associated Press found that across the U.S., the stimulus plan was "set to spend 50% more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than it will in communities with the highest." In Illinois, President Obama's home state, a Chicago Public Radio investigation this fall found that less than 10% of the Department of Transportation's stimulus contracts had gone to "disadvantaged business enterprises," or DBEs, even though the state says...