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...Stimulus or no, Kan, one of the fiercest critics of the rollout, maintains that the vast majority of China's mobile users have no interest in paying for faster phones. "Until now, 3G service providers across the world are all having a hard time struggling with little market demand...
According to Matthew A. Lewis, a first-year student at HDS, a number of first-year students expressed interest in transferring into the program before it was cut. “I’ve heard rave reviews about this program,” he said...
Simultaneously, our generation has shown interest in public service: A 2008 poll by Social Sphere Strategies shows that young people aged 18 to 29 supported the creation of the U.S. Public Service Academy by a margin of more than seven to one. Yet study after study has demonstrated that students are being priced out of public service by expensive undergraduate and graduate educations or turned off by the declining prestige of working in government. A study by the Financial Times, for example, found that even at programs like Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where...
...course, students need not serve directly in government to be conscientious citizens. There are many venues by which students have already embraced and are enthusiastically answering the call to service: Interest in nonprofit careers and programs such as Teach for America has steadily increased at Harvard in past years. But all conscientious citizens, regardless of their personal and career choices, must also recognize that recruiting motivated and talented public servants is critical to the efficiency and effectiveness of our government...
...Despite many studies of the effectiveness of castration - both surgical and chemical - the results are inconclusive. Some surveys suggest castration can dramatically reduce recidivism. One 1989 survey in Germany of 104 voluntary castrates showed a 75% drop in sexual interest, libido, erection and ejaculation. But measuring such changes is notoriously difficult and often depends on the subjective self-reports of sex offenders. A 1989 Psychological Bulletin study concluded that "the recidivism rate for treated offenders is not lower than that for untreated offenders; if anything, it tends to be higher." Many other studies emphasize the mental nature of deviant sexual...