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...Given that as the goal, American education is superior," he says. Education in mainland China has a different goal: to promote moral sensibility in students. Huang believes a university could instill moral virtue without neglecting its teaching mission, but given a choice between the two approaches he favors the American system, wherein "students are graded for their reasons, not for their conclusion...
Cohen is a superior scholar and his case studies make for stimulating reading. Particularly noteworthy are the chapters on 17th century figures including an especially pleasing section on Vesalius, Paracelsus and Harvey. The chapters on Darwin and Freud, and the saga of sea floor spreading, a revolution in earth science, are also splendidly wrought, commendable for their cogency and conciseness. Cohen's analysis focuses on revolutionary significance, but he simultaneously yields a wealth of stimulating narrative history...
...reason for the shortages is the disruption caused by the three-year contra war. Another lies in government economic policies. The Sandinistas claim that 60% of the Nicaraguan economy is in private hands. That assertion, says Ramiro Gurdian, vice president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise, is "fake. The private sector owns the means of production, but the government tells you what to do. What decision is left...
...industry. From nothing just two years ago, sales grew to 5.2 million disks last year; in recent months, the Polygram complex of classical labels (Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and London) took in about as much money in CD sales in the U.S. as it did from LPs and tapes combined. Superior in almost every respect to conventional records, CDs will send the LP the way of the 78 within the next decade, possibly sooner...
...Smiths have done luckily available elsewere as a single and on Hatful of Hollows) and "this Joke Isn't Funny Any More" have emotional or intellectual integrity--but only by covering well-trod territory the sexual anxiety of an unappealing ingenue. The Smiths, despite their musical originality and superior sensibility, are hemmed in by Morrissey's hang-ups. The newest single. "Shakespeare's Sister," (not on the album is just more yodeling about "going to see the one I love," Where is Dr. Ruth when you need...