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...promising pigeons. Store shelves groan with new products purported to stimulate babies' brains in ways harried parents don't have time for. There are baby Mozart tapes said to enhance spatial reasoning and perhaps musical and artistic abilities too. There are black, white and red picture books, said to sharpen visual acuity. There are bilingual products said to train baby brains so they will be more receptive to multiple languages. The hard sell even follows kids to the one place you'd think they'd be allowed some peace--the womb--with handheld tummy speakers designed to pipe music...
...planning. Such an atmosphere would be corrosive to the Institute and hurts the hopes of attracting the atypical yet politically-interested undergraduate. The purpose of the Institute should be to inspire all undergraduates into public life and careers in politics, not to offer would-be politicos an opportunity to sharpen their stump speeches. We can only hope that does not happen in the years to come...
...That hasn't stopped the party from at least toying with the patriotic on/off switch. You could see the process playing out in real time on the Internet, where the nation's censors worked overtime to sharpen the anti-American fervor by erasing pro-U.S. Web postings. The website of the People's Daily, the nation's largest paper, employed nine monitors, who sifted through 20,000 postings a day to make sure sentiment agreed with the party line...
That hasn't stopped the party from at least toying with the patriotic on/off switch. You could see the process playing out in real time on the Internet, where the nation's censors worked overtime to sharpen the anti-American fervor by erasing pro-U.S. Web postings. The website of the People's Daily, the nation's largest paper, employed nine monitors, who sifted through 20,000 postings a day to make sure sentiment agreed with the party line...
...promising pigeons. Store shelves groan with new products purported to stimulate babies' brains in ways harried parents don't have time for. There are baby Mozart tapes said to enhance spatial reasoning and perhaps musical and artistic abilities too. There are black, white and red picture books, said to sharpen visual acuity. There are bilingual products said to train baby brains so they will be more receptive to multiple languages. The hard sell even follows kids to the one place you'd think they'd be allowed some peace - the womb - with handheld tummy speakers designed to pipe music...