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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests??that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
...Furthermore, if we have the government pay people to “volunteer”—perhaps by making college more affordable for those who do, as Obama suggests??then what they do is not service as such, but a job, paid for with taxpayer dollars. This also raises an important vagueness in the concept of service. What is the sharp distinction between jobs that are traditionally considered service, such as being a soldier, and jobs that are not, such as being a shop clerk? If that seems too clear, what about being a firefighter, police...
...HSCI co-director Douglas A. Melton is the first to report successful "direct reprogramming," a technique that—as its name suggests??directly transforms one type of a fully formed adult cell into another...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests??that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests??that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...