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...have to be a Wall Street analyst to do the quick math: with a carrier cost of one-third of a penny, when a customer pays 15 cents to send a message, 98% of that 15 cents is pure profit. (Of course, you already knew that in your gut; that's why your stomach turns every time you examine your cell-phone bill...
...have concrete data, Kenen suggested that many junior and seniors in the sciences have found switching to Gen Ed particularly advantageous. Several introductory science and pre-med classes—such as Life Sciences 1a: “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences” and Math 1b: “Calculus, Series, and Differential Equations”—that previously did not count towards Core credit for science concentrators now can fulfill Gen Ed requirements for those concentrators. But Anne Marie E. Calareso, program manager for General Education, was quick to caution that...
...stool are important. Philanthropy is going to be important, and we want to encourage businesses in all sorts of ways to get involved. For example, I've been talking to my science advisor, John Holdren, about how we can really tap into businesses to improve science and technology and math education. And I am willing to bet that there isn't a high-tech company out there - Google, Microsoft, what have you - that wouldn't love to sponsor young people - and young girls in particular, who oftentimes are left out of the conversation on math and science education - to really...
...just as business is going to have a role, there are going to be some things that only government can do, and there will be some things that only individuals and parents can do themselves. And we can have the best science and math training programs in the world, the best sponsors in the world, but if parents aren't telling their kids to turn off the video box and go do some work...
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