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That coordination will be a serious mistake. Europe today has an average unemployment rate of more than 10% and is simply not creating private-sector jobs. This chronic problem reflects high payroll taxes, inefficient work rules and a tax and regulatory system that discourages entrepreneurial activity. Standardizing tax and industrial policies will exacerbate these conditions by eliminating the competitive pressure that would come from national experiments with alternative policies...
...taxes. Future experience with cyclical unemployment and rising inflation will justifiably provoke angry politicians to blame domestic ills on the decisions made by the representatives of other European countries. The frustration over the inability to influence one's own national economic affairs is likely to become an increasingly difficult problem within Europe...
...American parents should worry less about the precise number of minutes their students devote to homework and more about the uneven and poorly conceived way in which it is assigned. "What defines the homework problem in the U.S. today is variation," Cooper says. Less than one-third of U.S. school districts provide any guidelines to parents and teachers on how much homework children should receive and what purpose it's supposed to serve. In places that have instituted formal homework policies, a semblance of sanity has arrived. In Hinsdale, Ill., parents often complained that their children got too much homework...
...more liable than they are in state courts, where rulings tend to spark change only in the offending district. A 1993 survey by the American Association of University Women found that 30% of girls and nearly 20% of boys are harassed often, leading Davis advocates to argue that the problem is systemic and needs the widespread changes likely to follow a federal precedent...
Much of the problem here is our cognitive machinery for gauging risk. Human beings evolved in societies of 40, 50, maybe 100 people. In those groups, if you saw a mother sobbing that her child had been carried off by a wild animal, it meant your child faced a real risk. So, apparently, the human brain evolved to take such reports seriously. But today Americans live in a society of 250 million people. If you turn on the TV and see a mother sobbing that her child has been abducted, it means nothing of statistical significance. Still, you instinctively...