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...there's one thing the whole Smart Tags debacle taught us, it's that the new and improved Microsoft is prepared to retreat at the first whiff of consumer backlash. So if you care at all about the right of web designers to use whatever language they like without fear of users being blocked from seeing their efforts, write Microsoft and let them know you'll be thinking twice about purchasing XP. After all, it's a pretty dreary world without a regular shot of Java...
...knew America must be a big and wealthy country. But we were taught the Yamato tribe was directly descended from the gods, while Americans were people gathered from all over the world, a country of only 200 years. So they couldn't have our fighting spirit...
...homes have no access to alphabetic materials and books. One thing that Head Start should be able to do is make up for some of the environment that child in poor homes don't have. Letters, numbers, reading to children and having them follow along - these are things regularly taught to child in middle and upper-class homes, but routinely deprived in underprivileged homes. We need to make sure we have a program that works - sustained academic achievement so children can catch up with their middle class peers and be able to do well in their education...
...going to make the doctors happier because they can practice medicine the way they were taught, without withholding care," he says. "Most importantly, it's going to make the patient happy, and make them feel like the doctor is their advocate, not a tool of the insurance company...
...Since his first breakdown, Solomon has suffered two relapses, one while writing this book. Depression is "always there, waiting in the wings." Yet he has learned to embrace his suffering, citing the Russian proverb that "if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead." Depression has taught him "what it means to be human, what is good in being human." It has allowed him to come to terms with his terminally ill mother's suicide and forced him to confront his confusion over his sexuality. Solomon apologizes that "no book can span the reach of human suffering...