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That is especially true in China, where the government has put its muscle behind an all-out effort to transform homegrown science. "Ten years ago in China, it was virtually all derivative stuff," says Chu. "Students would sit and listen and try to capture every word. Now they're asking lots of questions." During a 100th-anniversary celebration for Peking University a few years ago, Chu found himself seated next to China's Minister for Education. "She was asking for my autograph," he says, shaking his head. "It was totally topsy-turvy. Can you imagine in the U.S. the Secretary...
While I believe that Presidential wiretapping for political reasons is wrong, the National Security Agency can read my e-mail and listen to my phone conversations all day long if it will help them find the bad guys. The government knows whom to be suspicious of. I am sure it is trying desperately to find terrorists. Why would it spend needless hours reading the e-mail I send to my mother? Please let the government do its job and keep us safe. After all, why do we have spy agencies...
...Listen to the silence. all the snowy tracks and icy settings at the Winter Olympics elicit a different music from the Games that take place in the summer. Then, even the longest and most lonesome event - the marathon - is run amid the constant roar of crowds cheering every step of the race. The Winter Games has its own supply of electricity, but it's more a gathering hush as athletes contend with their frozen surroundings. You hear it in the cross-country skier's gasping solitary climb up a snowy hillside or in the sharp swoosh of a perilous slide...
...that of "Idol" and its imitators. A new episode will be downloaded each week consisting of about 20 auditioning bands, and users will then be able to vote on which ones they think deserve to go to the next round. They can also link to the groups? backstories and listen to what music industry executives and other celebrity musicians think of the performances. The winner will be signed to the Casablanca label, a division of-you guessed it-NBC's sister company, Universal Music Group, run by Tommy Mottola, who is also co-producing the series...
...Bakshi took this risk. Not wishing to do so because one cannot reconcile the benefits with the potential risks is understandable, but not when it is due to simple lack or stifling of interest. Some students are willing to place themselves beyond Harvard’s borders and to listen to and amplify subdued voices. These students must be actively supported, not explained away. The College must support travel such as Bakshi’s and even take some role in securing back-up contacts for its students abroad, especially in trouble-spots. One can never entirely remove the risks...