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...Japan's top scientists are envious of Nakamura. Like him, they feel stifled by a system at home that favors seniority over merit and product development over innovative research. While the country trains twice as many scientists and engineers as the U.S. does, Japan has produced only five Nobel-prizewinning scientists--the same number as tiny Belgium. And most of those laureates spent significant time overseas...
Some contend that John Rocker's arguments in that fateful Sports Illustrated interview do not render him worthy of punishment. Famed conservative commentator Dennis Prager has defended Rocker to the hilt. In The Weekly Standard, Prager wrote that Rocker's disparaging remarks about Manhattan and its minority inhabitants "merit as little attention as comic books"--not the "hysteria" that the closing pitcher has received. On his talk show, Prager asserted that Rocker was simply exercising his freedom of speech and had never taken any action against the people who commute on the No. 7 subway train. Why shouldn...
...serious blow. Miranda advocates, including many defense lawyers, are thrilled - with good reason. After such a resounding Supreme Court ruling, it's unlikely there will be any serious threats to Miranda in the near future. A case may eventually come along, Rehnquist wrote in his opinion, that will merit a total overhaul of the Miranda system. Such a case, he added, has yet to materialize...
...lesbian daughter, or the newest biography of k.d. lang. Academic tomes about lesbian and gay studies nestle alongside gay personal finance books and travel guides. The selection spans the Dewey Decimal System, with books selected not for their specific subject matter, their intellectual approach or even their merit, but rather for their presumed appeal to gay and lesbian readers. That appeal, moreover, is calculated as narrowly as possible, so that the mere mention of gayness in a book's title qualifies it for admission. A reader's understanding of homosexuality might be profoundly influenced by Nabokov's Pale Fire...
GOING THE DISTANCE It's enough to make a skeptic squirm. After analyzing the results of two dozen trials, researchers say there may be some merit in the alternative art of "distance healing," which includes praying for someone's well-being and "therapeutic touch," in which healers move their hands over (but not on) a patient's body. In 57% of the studies, these practices appeared to accelerate recovery or reduce pain. As for how distance healing may work, that's for a higher authority...