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...rate of landline customers cutting the cord, so to speak. The company lost 3.7 million access lines, or 9.3% of its base, in 2008." The phone will take incoming calls and limited calls out. People will have to pay for additional telephoning at a modest price. Of course, smart people may use their cell to call out and take calls on their landline...
...Presidents shouldn’t appoint just anyone to their administrations, and Harvard offers some great talents. But no matter how smart they are, professors are still human. Groups of likeminded people fall victim to groupthink—sometimes with disastrous results. Indeed, when David Halberstam wrote his account of the Johnson administration’s bungling of Vietnam, he entitled it, “The Best and the Brightest...
Simonton rather dismissively calls this the "drudge theory." He thinks the real story is more complicated: deliberate practice, he says, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating genius. For one thing, you need to be smart enough for practice to teach you something. In a 2002 study, Simonton showed that the average IQ of 64 eminent scientists was around 150, fully 50 points higher than the average IQ for the general population. And most of the variation in IQs (about 80%, according to Simonton) is explained by genetics. (See pictures of Bobby Fischer, chess prodigy...
...Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is reported to favor enlisting Tehran's help in the war against Afghan drug lords and their supply routes. That would be a smart call, says Sajadpour. Once fruitful dialogue and cooperation have been established on the issue of drugs, he says, "then you can gradually expand the scope [of talks] to include nuclear issues, Hamas and Hizballah...
...She’s a really talented and poised point guard,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said of Berry. “She’s got a great court IQ, is able to penetrate, and is quite deceptive; she’s smart, strong, and quick, has a mid-range jumper, can shoot the three, and we often put her up against the toughest player on the other team...