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...foreign society. Demographics in a university or college tend not to reflect the demographics of a society at large. This is more significant in poorer countries where the university population tends to include more and more of the upper classes. However, all universities are unnaturally homogenous with respect to age. In the workplace, your boss, your receptionist, and your colleagues would all be at different stages of their lives and would provide very different perspectives on culture...
...respect [students’] intelligence, the other candidates do not,” Koenigs says, adding that his message will be “highly targeted and will include statistics...
...People donate irrespective of their insurance,” said Herring, who is now doing a residency in emergency medicine in Oakland, Calif. “They donate from an altruistic sense of wanting to help someone else. Out of respect for that motive, the health care system needs to reflect the same altruism, which means allocation of organs irrespective of ability...
...were asked, first individually, then in groups, their positions on climate change. In the results, he identified factors that lead to the rejection of individual beliefs, including individual concern for appearance, which often determines whether or not a person remains resolute in a group setting. “With respect to certain factual statements, people want to be seen a certain way, and also to present themselves a certain way,” Sunstein said. “When people are told by others that their views are correct, they not only rate those others as more likeable and more...
...Cohen, a Republican, was Defense Secretary in the Clinton Administration. "I wanted Jim because he knew where the bodies were buried," Cohen says. "And I wanted to make sure that mine wasn't among them." What could make Jones' job easier is the fact that both Clinton and Gates respect him. Clinton knows him through her tenure on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Gates, though he's never worked with Jones, knows him by reputation from their years at the Pentagon. Still far from clear is what role Joe Biden will play in this delicate arrangement. It was largely...