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...pause here," he says. "And we are seeing a pause." But even a sustained turn toward conservation in the U.S. wouldn't affect the main long-term drivers of higher oil prices--stagnant production worldwide and burgeoning demand from China, India and other emerging markets. So pay heed to Rainwater's choice of that word pause...
...health care speech in 1978, I heard him excite even the Carter supporters in the room when he attacked the President’s caution: “Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot afford to drift or lie at anchor. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail...
...scream to get my journalism school to make calls on Mohammed’s behalf. Was I asking the wrong questions, or did nobody really care? What I learned was that there was no safety net in place, no default call to arms that journalists around the world would heed and come to aid a brother. I’ve had to call governments, embassies, Congresspeople, all on my own, and I’m afraid I haven’t done a good enough job as far as Mohammed is concerned...
Certainly, the College has made great strides in making higher education more accessible to those entering its freshmen ranks, but that opportunity amounts to little if the administration pays less heed to students once on campus. If students are to enjoy a meaningful collegiate experience, their lives should be enriched not only by a intellectually coherent curriculum, but also by a student body so diverse as to include those entering from other universities...
...more than ever, people employ data-backed arguments, even to tackle the problems once addressed by the other fields. Just 100 years ago, the mystery of human happiness was a question for poets and theorists, but today, we take heed of empirical studies correlating happiness to job security and relative wealth. Now, even the moral dilemmas of altruism are modeled by behavioral economists interested in quantifying the extent to which people are averse to inequality. In order for the social theorist or ethicist to develop such models, however, certain foundational mathematical skills are necessary. Questions of scientific inquiry?...