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Beating AIDS and extreme, stupid poverty, this is our moon shot. This is our civil rights struggle, our anti-apartheid movement. This is what the history books will remember our generation for--or blame us for, if we fail...
...neighbor. There are many longer tunnels in the world, Wade said, and China had already offered to help dig one here. Earlier this month, regional power Nigeria stepped in to end the impasse. Gambia agreed to scale back ferry fees and Senegal said it would reopen its borders. "The stupid thing is, we are the same people," says money changer Fall. "Our problems come between the authorities, not the people." In Africa, though, the dream of an integrated, borderless future remains a long...
...that Mr. Badger is a Luddite. He merely points out that technology has a mixed record. CB radio was a Toad mania long ago. Technology is sometimes, in the end, a little stupid--as anything must be that was brilliant yesterday but was surpassed overnight--a monster that lives on a hungry, dynamic need for its own obsolescence. The universe of Gutenberg should no more be an abandoned graveyard than, say, the American city, which, a generation after World War II, seemed to be in decline and headed toward extinction. Why did we need the cities when...
...easily if the Oakland school board knew how to speak better English. They had the right idea, after all. It makes perfect sense to help teachers understand that youngsters from underclass neighborhoods speak differently from other Americans and that their distinctive speech patterns don't mean the kids are stupid." He continued, "In fact, school systems in California and other states have been using this idea since the 1970s, when some scholars concluded that Black English is a distinct language with its own grammatical rules. Since more than half the black students in Oakland drop out before they finish high...
...inevitable impulse to automatically declare ourselves better than some group of “outsiders.” Don’t castigate those with whom you are not familiar, for rather than sounding enlightened and intelligent, you come across as precisely the things you accuse others of being: stupid, unworthy, and, worst of all, really, really, annoying...