Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Verba thinks that problem may stem from the role libraries play in student life--a resource used often, but not the real center of academics that a departmental building or office...
...four other panelists offered sobering statistics about the state of the environment, and especially focused on the energy problem...
...ranks. M.I.T. linguist Steven Pinker finds the ideas of memetics intriguing and occasionally even useful but doesn't quite believe it's a science. Nor does he accept the nest-of-memes view of consciousness. "To be honest, I don't even know what that means," admits Pinker. The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection. It doesn't account for the self that responds subjectively, that feels sensations such as love, envy and pain. "Babies are conscious," he points out. "That's why we don't operate...
...ages. The National Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education, based in Atlanta, reported that 4% of fourth-graders, 7% of fifth-graders and nearly 15% of sixth-graders had already smoked. Add to this the more than 3 million teenagers with the habit, and you have a major health problem...
...entirely the fault of individual companies but is rather a once-in-a-thousand-year foul-up that has caught the world off guard. Says Robert Holleyman, president of the Business Software Alliance: "These lawsuits are taking time and energy away from fixing the problem...