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...their child hits adolescence. As soon as said child shows signs of rebellion, many parents abdicate all control because the fight becomes too difficult. Teens are now let loose to drink, smoke and experiment sexually with little guidance. Since they were not taught to develop internal controls, they have great difficulty with impulse control. Really, being a little less controlling when your children are young and a little more so when they are older is a much better formula...
...would be a great asset to scientists because he thinks about why scientists do what they do,” Tolonen said...
This break in an almost century-old pattern coincided with great increases in occupational earnings differentials, which have continued to grow, seemingly exponentially. It seems quaint, if not unfathomable, that just three decades ago the differentials that then existed—generally two- to fivefold in earnings between business leaders and doctors and lawyers, or five- to tenfold with professors, scientists, and public servants—were often rationalized by the country’s highest-ranking graduates as reasonable additional compensation to balance the lower standing of business jobs among their peers...
Does anyone seriously believe that the social benefits, macroeconomic included, that can be expected as a collective consequence of radically more remunerative paths taken will be as great or greater than would have followed from those, mentioned above, not taken? Isn’t the innovation that the country needs most for continued prosperity likely to come from scientists and engineers, not leaders of financial institutions...
Lauren N. Moore, another first-year, said the suspension had little impact on students in her year and therefore was not of great concern...