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...only to be batted down as irrelevant because they deal with the humanities or they are neglected because there isn’t enough time to address every issue. Moral dilemmas, social implications of scientific research and even the aesthetics of green bunnies are all dismissed as beyond the scope of the material of the course. In some respects, the professor who brought up Alba is way ahead of his colleagues, most of whom would never have even raised the question. But even open-minded professors raise these questions for no more than 15 seconds of airtime, such that they...
...there are English professors who refuse, or are unable, to delve into questions of morality, philosophy professors unwilling to discuss literature and any number of other examples. Specialization is the current mantra, and as professors define smaller and smaller areas of expertise, our courses get narrower and narrower in scope...
...Walton’s fortune starts to make a little more sense, then, as you begin to understand the scope of Wal-Mart’s achievement. It manages its suppliers and its customers better than any company in America, and it knows more about its products and its prices too, allowing it to undersell all its competitors. It invests in technology but only buys the software and hardware that will improve productivity, preferring to let other companies jump on faddish technology bandwagons. Case in point: Wal-Mart waited longer than just about every retailer in the country to launch...
...Gusmorino says that expanding the scope of UC Books in this way will likely involve technology that has not yet been developed...
...heats up, and good old-fashioned populism is back in style. "There hasn't been this degree of populist rhetoric since 1989," says Jonathan Stein, an independent political analyst based in Prague. "Politicians are trying to show they are capable of defending national identity, but E.U. integration limits the scope for this to symbolic battles...