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...economics may be pretty conventional, but in the social sphere, Chile's agnostic, no-longer-married-mother President Michele Bachelet is revolutionizing this traditionally conservative Catholic country. The government is tackling the problem of teenage pregnancy by handing out morning-after pills to 14-year olds without their parents' permission. A bill to allow terminally ill patients to choose a "merciful death" was recently introduced to the legislature, and there is growing momentum behind calls for a civil-union law that would extend the legal benefits of marriage to gay and unwed heterosexual couples. The legal system is struggling under...
...second sphere will focus on transmitting new scientific knowledge to the next generation of leaders, and the final aspect will serve as a public engagement model...
...both arrived at the conclusion that divisions of race, culture, generation, and economic class are not as easy to surmount as general wisdom would have it. No ringing choruses of “We are the World” in this house. Our conversational exchanges never quite leave the sphere of the superficial; the lofty realms of ’80s-synth-happy harmony are as accessible to us as Betelgeuse...
...Globe Snow glistening under a Swedish moon inspired Torbjörn Lundell to come up with GloFab, a light-radiating "fabric" made[an error occurred while processing this directive] from slender fiber-optic cables. Here, the material is draped around a transparent acrylic sphere to create a squiggly glitter ball. Other applications include curtains and wall hangings, yet Lundell's ambition is to get the yarn to change color in response to music. That man should run a disco. www.glofab.se...
...socialize within their 100-200 person housing groups). But rarely do such campaigners actually examine the system they so heartily applaud. At Oxford, and other schools with similar artificially constructed communities, students are segregated not by interest or choice, but by random fortune. The result is a narrower social sphere with friendship groups based roughly along the lines of first-year stairwell housing—or whoever else students are lucky enough to run into. This would be all well and good if it made them happier or, as its supporters claim, broadened their horizons. But in reality, this makes...