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...number of seats in a row by the number of rows, Paulos came up with a section of the stadium that he figured contained about 10,000 seats - an image he can now think back to whenever a person starts talking about tens of thousands of a particular thing. When numbers get too large, though, that method breaks down. A stack of one trillion $1 bills would reach more than a quarter of the way to the moon - replacing one incomprehensible thought with another doesn't do much good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Understand a Trillion-Dollar Deficit | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure.” “The whole thing boils down to human rights.” Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...whole thing boils down to government rights vs. property rights.” (Government...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...could cost as much as $5 billion a year - and if the government imposed a tax or cap on carbon dioxide, the price of coal would certainly rise. "For all the money the industry has spent to mislead the public, [Kingston] shows that there really is no such thing as clean and cheap coal in the U.S," says Bruce Nilles, the director of the Sierra Club's National Coal Campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exposing the Myth of Clean Coal Power | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

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