Word: thoughts
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...economist visited the White House in 1934 saying deficit spending was the best engine to boost consumer demand and create jobs, Roosevelt balked. (Two years later, the economist - John Maynard Keynes - published that advice in his seminal work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, which revolutionized economic thought by debunking the widely held belief that the market naturally tends toward full employment.) (See what Obama can learn from...
...this warped way of thinking in an unexpectedly modern setting: school shootings. Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a Finnish schoolboy who murdered eight people at his high school in November 2007, wrote on his blog that "stupid, weak-minded people are reproducing ... faster than the intelligent, strong-minded" ones. Auvinen thought through the philosophical implications of Darwin's work and came to the conclusion that human life is like every other type of animal life: it has no extraordinary value. The Columbine killers made similar arguments. One of the shooters, Eric Harris, wore a "Natural Selection" shirt...
When he arrived at Harvard his freshman year, Alexander E. Johnson ’10 says he thought to himself, “This is a very irreligious place...
...student (and former member of the Election Commission!) seems to be upset because he thought he was attending this meeting for deliberations. He complains that apparently everyone here has already "unanimously decided" to certify the election...
...next year, a local official told the state-run China Daily newspaper. A site for an incinerator to replace two overtaxed landfills was proposed in 2006, but residents say they weren't informed about the plans until this fall. In one survey cited by China Daily, 92% of residents thought the incinerator would harm their health, and 97% were opposed to its construction. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...