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...Internet gambling when he went to college. Online poker, with the potential to play many tables at once and the possibility of quickly losing your entire year's tuition in a torrent of bad-luck bits and bytes, can cut both ways. It provides the same emphasis on logic and calculation but lacks the social controls of face-to-face games with friends. It can swallow players up, as in the infamous case of the Lehigh University student who robbed a bank last December to pay off his online-gambling debts. More rarely, a kid can end up with...
...tenet of engineering is, Always know what problem you're working on," Grove tells the audience. The main issue with importing 60% of our oil should be not cost or global warming, Grove says, but loss of strategic control. "The problem is wrong," he later elaborates, "so all the logic and discipline lead you in the wrong direction," namely, toward price sensitivity. Hybrid technology looks better when gas is $5 per gal. than when it is $3. But that's beside the point, says Grove. What's at stake is national security and control of our own economy...
...ready for hydrogen because of this, we are not ready for ethanol because of that," Grove says. "But what is the cost-effectiveness of something that can make you an independent country capable of making your own decisions?" That's the City College--educated engineer talking, applying rigorous Grovian logic to a complex issue. It may never fly in Washington...
...SICK & TIRED Well, she's sick of men who can't satisfy her. Also, NASA and racist dolphins. But Sykes, a former writer for Chris Rock (whom she sounds a bit like) and the star of two short-lived TV shows, has more than enough energy and tart comic logic for this stand-up soirée. She doesn't just rail at the White House's fumbling of military and financial issues; she's got helpful hints, like putting working moms in charge of the defense budget ("There's a sale on bombs at Target"). Of the newer comics with...
...Benedict may wish to argue that somewhere in the minds of Islamic suicide bombers is an unstated understanding that if anyone tried to reason them out of their plans they would counter that logic had no role because this was the will of God. But that would be an assumption on his part. And that exposes the essential arbitrariness, at least for now, of the Pope's approach. If he wants to make an "essentialist" argument against Islam-that is, to suggest that there may be something in it that is intrinsically more friendly to fanaticism-then he needs...