Word: saner
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...people dream of aping their computers, which grow measurably more agile every six months. Not wiser or saner or more truthful, those immeasurable human qualities that are extolled by priests and poets, but just better at handling elaborate graphics, say, or performing multimillion-variable calculations. Assuming that we can keep up with these machines, where will it take us as a society? When the shared ideal is to be like Mr. Spock instead of Dr. Spock, and to emulate Dr. Jonas Salk rather than Marcus Welby, M.D., who will stroke humanity's fevered forehead? No one, I fear, unless...
What would happen if the drinking age was rolled back to 18 or 19? Initially, there would be a surge in binge drinking as young adults savored their newfound freedom. But over time, I predict, U.S. college students would settle into the saner approach to alcohol I saw on the one campus I visited where the legal drinking age is 18: Montreal's McGill University, which enrolls about 2,000 American undergraduates a year. Many, when they first arrive, go overboard, exploiting their ability to drink legally. But by midterms, when McGill's demanding academic standards must...
...filters" -- techniques for surviving in a densely populated network and for sorting E-mail that arrives at the rate of 400 pieces a day. Others use "bozo filters" and "kill files" -- lists of individuals whose past behavior has convinced Internet users that their lives will be richer and much saner if they never read another word those bozos write...
...week, in the first round of voting, the candidate for the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolic, won. Next week he heads into a runoff against a Djindjic ally, Boris Tadic. "This is not politics anymore," said Stojan Cerovic, of the Belgrade weekly Vreme. "It's madness." Serbia looked saner last year when, in the aftermath of the assassination, the government imposed a state of emergency and rounded up thousands of suspects. Members of the top-secret special-police unit known as the Red Berets, led by Lukovic (they pioneered ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian war, and some turned...
...Harvard was almost a saner place when it was a rich old boys’ club because at least everyone was not the best,” Chopra said. “You are not going to be the best at everything here, and it is really tough for people to deal with that...