Word: socialism
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...Stanford. “We had blogs with running dialogue, online quizzes, and listening exercises, which were extremely helpful,” he said. But don’t look for Harvard to send undergraduate courses online any time in the near future. “Learning is a social process,” Mazur said. “Technology, if used properly, can enhance this process...
...things devolve to this point? We have underestimated the amount of social change that we've lived through in the past 40 or 50 years. The first wave of change came with the rebellious spirit of the '60s. We threw off a lot of conventional wisdom. A lot of what we threw away was bad - bias, prejudice, segregation. But a lot of the spiritual and traditional ways Americans used to organize beliefs in their lives were thrown out, and it turned out it was very hard to replace those things...
...remain close to where they were reared, I think you have a very different array of problems and concerns. Our material lives are better than any human beings have enjoyed at any point in history, but we're not as happy. We don't report the same measures of social connectedness as we used to. That's the great paradox, and that, at least, is universal to affluent societies in the West...
...what's the solution? I don't believe that there is a social or legislative response to the problems I'm talking about. I think responses have to come at the individual and family level...
...Would illegal immigrants be allowed to participate in any new health-insurance system established in the bill? No. The bill would require individuals and families eligible for subsidies to prove their citizenship by providing their names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth. Those who cannot prove their citizenship would not be allowed to purchase insurance through the exchanges, with or without subsidies...