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While some measures may turn out to have been extreme, we have contingency plans for a reason. We still don't know how long this will last or how bad it will get. With any luck, this outbreak will let us know where our defenses need strengthening--without forcing us to rely on them...
...even telecom service and equipment suppliers that are prospering have reason to be worried, knowing they are in the crosshairs of free voice providers that want to render the industry as they know it obsolete. The biggest threat to the old order is probably Skype Ltd. of Luxembourg, which has attracted more than 405 million customers since it launched software in 2003 that allows free long-distance calls over the Internet. eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype four years ago because it believed the free voice operator would mesh well with its auction business. It didn't. Now eBay...
...word influence is derived from an ancient astrological term describing the power of the stars to affect the destiny of human beings. The definition has changed a bit over the centuries, but influence remains a mysterious force and a difficult one to measure. That's part of the reason the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world is so diverse and eclectic. How do you gauge the influence of a molecular biologist vs. that of a politician, weigh the relative impact of a tennis player and a fashion designer or an architect and a minister...
With his comment that "I learned a lot of calculus, which hasn't proved that useful in my career," Isaacson gets at a key reason our schools aren't succeeding. The question isn't whether we have adequate standards; it's whether the curriculum prepares our students to be successful. What are the skills our young people need to be successful in today's society? Don't they need to know how to communicate, cooperate and problem-solve? Shouldn't they understand what it means to be punctual, responsible, committed and courteous? Shouldn't they have a thorough understanding...
...participation of the nation's mathematicians or their two professional societies in the construction of national mathematics standards for K-12. No other nation would dream of developing national mathematics standards without a sign-off by the country's mathematics community. Perhaps this exclusion of mathematicians is one reason children in the U.S. do not do as well on the international scene in mathematics as we would like them to. As a former official at the Massachusetts Department of Education, I will tell you that students' 2007 scores in international testing in that state showed that the involvement of mathematicians...