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...worried about? Your report excellently detailed the many negative effects of global warming and, more importantly, stressed its immediacy. As a young person, I'm well aware that it is my generation to which many corporations and politicians wish to relegate this burden, and my generation will suffer the consequences of today's recklessness. I am especially frustrated by the Bush Administration's harmful environmental policies. Thank you for your efforts to educate the public about the threat of global warming, a threat more imminent than many have believed. Hannah Jewell San Rafael, California, U.S. Thank you for good, timely...
...Borjas’ findings have been challenged by David Card, a Berkeley economist, who argues that immigration raises average wages by increasing the amount of availabe capital. He also claims that the least skilled workers—those who Borjas says are the hardest hit—suffer no loss of wages as a result of immigration. Card’s basic findings are echoed by other economists.At the least, we should be suspicious of those who claim that the rights of immigrants conflict with U.S. workers’. The economic evidence is too complicated and inconclusive to draw such...
...bone, what McKay Professor of Engineering Robert D. Howe calls “an amazingly original idea.” This device would be used in patients who undergo spinal fusion, the most common surgical remedy for back pain, according to Simmons’ abstract. Because older patients often suffer from low bone density, the expanding screw would go into the vertebral body, creating a system with a greater holding capacity, she wrote in her abstract. Everett, who also placed second, collaborated with knee-injury specialists to improve testing for tendon graft orientation in injured knees. His device, which automates...
...categories. In particular, Adam Sandler’s production company—Happy Madison Productions—has blighted the cinematic landscape twice this season, with puerile ensemble farces “Grandma’s Boy” and “Benchwarmers.” Both movies suffer from hoary plots, cut-rate production values, and the bleached non-acting of washed-up Saturday Night Live alums. Yet these faults seem unlikely to alienate the films’ natural audience of frat boys and stoners. These movies are essentially “critic proof?...
...neatly edited footage of interviews and mini-biographies, the Afghan women speak candidly about their lives under the Taliban and during the civil war. They often follow horror stories with laughter, creating a disarming effect on the audience; however, after suffering all there is to suffer, these inspiring women seem ready to move on. They come across stunningly familiar and endearing as they articulate their views on family and marriage...