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...combat the Philippines' budget deficit and a hike in electricity and petrol prices to offset rising oil costs, which have prompted numerous street protests. "These protests and bishops worry me no end," says Jose Ma. Rufino, national executive director of Arroyo's Lakas Party. "It's a new phenomenon." Unfortunately, coup tremors in the Philippines are anything...
...quite rare. In an average classroom, there might be three children with an IQ over 130; they'll learn more quickly than their peers and need less repetition. (Profoundly gifted children - those with an IQ over 180 - are a 1 in 500,000 to 1 in a million phenomenon.) Yet teachers joke that parents have their own definition of giftedness: 2% of the population - plus their own child...
Friedman and the mayor, it seems, both ensnare themselves in exceedingly sunny optimism by limiting their focus one-dimensionally to economics. Though many theorists recognize globalization as at least partially a political and cultural phenomenon, Friedman devotes the vast majority of “The World Is Flat” to business, corporate management, and technological innovation...
...Y2K” remains a viable backdrop for a production in the twenty-first century because the phenomenon was “not a problem of zeros and ones but of adjusting to new ways of seeing the world,” says director, House Tutor, and graduate student in the English department Gustavo S. Turner. In fact, Turner says that the play is “much more powerful” now, as it will cause “people to reflect on what it means to have a safe stable identity in the twenty-first century...
Finally, the group discussed making a tribute to the consumer culture phenomenon of the Apple I-Pod. If the group were to choose this project, they would recreate a huge I-Pod replica, complete with “a giant click wheel that might light up at night.” Duher says it might include “earpods in the ears of the John Harvard statue...