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...think people do live a veiled life, [a life] of illusions. Culture delivers it, politics deliver it, some art delivers it, technology delivers it - it's very easy to lose contact with life as it really is. And that's why I keep returning to the human body. It's not ghoulishness. I believe that it is the central fact of human existence. And yet it's very obvious how art and religion and many other cultural things try to take us away from the body reality - for obvious reasons. Because if you accept the body, you accept mortality...
...think America will lose its scientific and technological edge in the next 10 years? Ali Khan, CHICAGO...
...Georgia Schools Earn an F The Clayton County, Ga., school system became the first in the U.S. in almost 40 years to lose its accreditation, six months after a regional agency demanded that the Atlanta-area district reform its dysfunctional school board. Many colleges require a diploma from an accredited high school, leaving 50,000 Clayton County students in limbo unless the district turns itself around by next fall...
There are opportunity costs to this system. Collaboration suffers as scientists guard their work to keep the money coming. Because the funding process favors experienced grant writers, young investigators can lose out. Such friction and lack of funds, some argue, are causing a brain drain to Singapore and other regions that are actively seeking to develop their biotech industries. "The incentives are totally misaligned. The repetitive nature of funding the same universities and the same people--all of these things add up to the stagnant position that we're in," says Doug Ulman, president of the LAF and chairman...
...course, the colleges that don't offer such tuition breaks know they will likely lose students to those that do. But don't expect state schools to start rushing in. Even public universities that have large endowments have yet to embrace no-loan programs. Take the University of California system, whose $6.4 billion endowment was the 12th biggest in the nation last year. The UC schools already educate more poor kids than their Ivy League counterparts, both in terms of absolute numbers and as a proportion of their student bodies. Even at the system's flagship schools, UCLA and Berkeley...