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...came away from Pinker's article doubting whether we have souls. If consciousness is a by-product of electrochemical reactions inside our brains, where are our souls? Are our souls a separate entity from this collection of tissue and neurons that keeps our body running? Or when our brain dies, are we snuffed out like a candle, and that is the end of our experience? The more science discovers about the brain, the more I'm convinced that after our brain dies, we die with it. Bill Simon Lansing, Illinois...
That leaves a huge price gap for the likes of EOS, whose one-class structure can deliver a top-shelf product at a relatively low price and still make a decent profit, says EOS founder and strategic director David Spurlock. "You now have this new entrant that is zealous about delivering outstanding service and quality--and that's all they do. The large enterprise--which is juggling economy, strategies, pressures from discounters, international routes with domestic routes--has a hard time keeping pace." EOS's usual fare to London, $7,500, undercuts BA's by 20%; its lowest fare...
...Michael Boyd, president of the Boyd Group, an aviation consulting firm based in Evergreen, Colo., says that JetBlue will weather the storm. "When it comes to customer service, these people rewrote the book," he says. "The product is damn good. It's just that their operational systems haven't been very robust. But they'll fix that. I bank...
When my mother first arrived at Harvard in 1972, she brought with her a thick Boston accent—a product of her upbringing in working class Framingham. Only a few weeks into school, she drummed up the courage to ask a question in a packed lecture hall. The professor responded by mockingly mimicking her accent. Humiliated by this degrading experience, she self-consciously introduced the letter “r” into her vernacular...
...there will be no artificial quotas and no barriers” at Harvard. “Under President Faust, excellence in teaching and research will the be watchword,” she wrote in an e-mail. Balch said that he believed Faust was chosen in part as a product of the post-Lawrence H. Summers environment. The former Harvard president, who was forced to resign from his post last February, sparked an outcry in 2005 when he proposed that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be one factor explaining the underrepresentation of women...