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...forces ?- new efficiencies in the way corporations do business ?- that may have changed the rules an awful lot. "The Internet structural change is a very big one, in the class of the railroad, the airplane, the automobile or the printing press," he says. "It should increase productivity growth and lower product prices. It could be the wild card for an inflationless prosperity." In other words, increased competitiveness among U.S. corporations with Net-connected companies around the globe could make the business world so efficient ?- with profits coming from productivity and not price increases ?- that inflation could really be dead this...
...Cambridge is still feeling the aftershocks of the decision to lift rent control, creating essentially a hemorrhaging of lower-income, usually minority, residents leaving the city in search of affordable rents...
They established the Innocence Project in 1991 as a clinic for students at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where Scheck has taught for more than 20 years. The clinic is a low-key place, hidden away on the 11th floor of an office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Law students hunched up in cubicles pore over case files and draft legal motions. In a corner, boxes are piled high with letters from prisoners pleading to have the project take their case. The law school pays most of the bills; private foundations, including George Soros' Open Society...
...teenagers released last week shows a direct relationship between teen substance abuse and the lack of close familial connections--especially between children and their fathers. I asked my group of college students what they thought society could do for them--more ad campaigns, safer campuses, a lower drinking age? To a person, they said the real education should happen at home, starting well before they are teenagers, maybe as young as age seven. ("By the time you're a teen, you've stopped listening," said one.) The best approach, they said, is for parents to try to have an ongoing...
PRACTICE SEPARATING "Having successful experiences, in the sense of getting through it O.K., even with tears, is really the only way to get used to separating," says George Burns, principal of Fieldston Lower School in New York City. Make play dates with kids in your child's class. Visit the classroom ahead of time to familiarize your child with new surroundings...