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Lester Thurow in his new book, The Zero-Sum Solution, examines how the U.S. could improve its competitiveness in the world economy. He briefly discussed his book at the meeting, saying that Japan and many European countries enjoy a competitive advantage over the U.S. because of their higher savings rates. Thurow argued that more savings would help the U.S. in many ways, including a strengthening of the labor force. He asserted that the level of education and skills for Japanese or German workers is higher than it is for American employees. If corporations were not so deeply in debt, they...
...patients," he said. "They have to find out what the cure is." One bulimic who ate in binges and threw up five to 25 times a day was told she would be cured if she gave the therapist a penny the first time she vomited and doubled the sum each time she threw up. Says Haley: "They quickly figure out that it doubles so fast that they can owe the therapist hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few days, so they stop...
...sum, no museum has ever mounted a better anthology of early German modernism. One sees all the parts of the expressionist project of inoculating the 20th century against its own creeping materialism, an aim that cast itself, in large ecstatic terms, as the liberation of the repressed self from the bonds of history and convention. The idea that painting could do this was one of the reigning ideals of early modern art; today it is hardly more than sales talk. But when Max Beckmann declared that he wanted his paintings to "accuse God of everything he has done wrong...
...Poggio described are probably a long way off. For the present, he calls attempting to embody all artificial intelligence research in a single robot "a waste of time," because while the research remains primarily in the theoretical and experimental stages, "the whole will be less than the sum of its parts...
Harvard, by contrast, has at least one clear motive for gagging all parties to the Trowbridge case. By paying Trowbridge an unknown sum, Harvard bought itself protection against a group of potentially troublesome tenants at the Craigie Arms...