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...every natural or national boundary. Unpretentious and supremely practical, he will surely engage in the dirtiest of commercial habits: He will spy on his competitors to stay a few steps ahead, fire incompetent employees with alacrity, and invent new business models, all in an effort to capture new market space. It is hard to fathom the ingenuity we would witness if capitalists participated fully in the one-half-trillion dollar market of educating American children, sights set broadly on the trillions more that lay beyond our borders...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 1 | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...substantial innovation that has occurred in this space has occurred despite the long-lived (and criminal) monopoly of the lumbering and depressingly incompetent American public school. This innovation in private and interactive e-education has benefited only those children whose parents take initiative. The public education system is right to treat knowledge as too essential a commodity to be left for only the wealthy to enjoy; That is, it is morally correct to subsidize education. However, its proponents fail to understand the absurdity—in light of modern innovations in learning—of maintaining the status...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 1 | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...While it’s mildly annoying that we must now pay for food, drinks and checked baggage—which is usually our only option when overhead compartments are too small or flights are so full that we can barely fit our carry-on bags in the space provided—any slack in the system of efficient service is even more distressing...

Author: By Ayse Baybars | Title: Hard Times, High Fares | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...shred of each part...You need to put them together to figure out the whole wiring diagram.”But the simple concept requires massive volumes of data—far beyond the capacity of current technologies. According to Sanes, mapping a human brain would demand enough storage space to host all the photos on Facebook millions of times over—now a wildly unrealistic demand.“Everything” will have to advance before such data can be processed, Sanes says. More powerful computers will need to be used, as well as perhaps some...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unraveling Nerves, Understanding the Brain | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Supreme Court proved willing to uphold the doctrine, eking out space for it alongside the First Amendment. In 1969's Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, journalist Fred Cook sued a Pennsylvania Christian Crusade radio program after a radio host attacked him on air. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld Cook's right to an on-air response under the Fairness Doctrine, arguing that nothing in the First Amendment gives a broadcast license holder the exclusive right to the airwaves they operate on. But when Florida tried to hold newspapers to a similar standard in 1974's Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fairness Doctrine | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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