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...University. Ultimately, “the real element of contention,” Rosovsky concludes, “is not lack of change. Rather, it is types of rates of change that concern our critics... By emphasizing length of commitment and knowledge, we discourage excessive consideration of short-term issues...
...Well, this survey took place before the Fed's surprise move last week - and now that Greenspan has cut 2 full points from the short-term interest rate and demonstrated that he is indeed committed to avoiding a recession, the upshot of Tuesday's news is probably that the Fed will cut again by a half-point at the May 15 meeting, barring some unforeseen turnaround in the indicators...
...Don’t come to Harvard because you think you should. Parents like the Harvard name. Grandparents like Harvard T-shirts. Employers like a Harvard degree. But if you don’t think you’ll like the Harvard experience, the short-term cost to your happiness is probably not worth the long-term benefit...
Like all riots, the tumult that plagued Cincinnati for three days last week defies a single explanation. But the causes are scattered over the past weeks and years. In the city's short-term memory, there lies an unarmed 19-year-old African-American man named Timothy Thomas, killed by a white officer last Saturday. Thomas was wanted for 14 misdemeanor violations, most of them small-time traffic charges. His bigger mistake was to run from the police. Surrounded by 12 officers, Thomas was killed by one bullet. The officer who fired, Steven Roach, has said he thought Thomas...
...wait: There is, as is usual in such studies, more to the story than the initial news reports might suggest. For instance, children in child-care centers, according to the study, are more likely to display better language skills and have better short-term memory. In an effort to keep half of America's workforce from running screaming from their offices, TIME.com asked two experts in early childhood development and education to help us interpret this study's findings. Steven Barnett, professor of education and director of the center for early childhood education at Rutgers University and Maurice Elias...