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...always have bifocal vision as an adult looking at a children’s book,” she said. “You get lost in the story, but you’re also thinking about its complexities and real-world implications of what??s being told...
...What??s more troubling, however, is that few people seem to mind this rampant smoking. Despite the abundance of evidence documenting the ill effects of second-hand smoke, many people apparently still underestimate its danger. Recent surveys have shown that two-thirds of Chinese people think that smoking does “little to no harm,” while 60 percent do not know that smoking causes lung cancer, and 96 percent are not aware of the connection between smoking and heart disease...
...Harvard students, we are repeatedly told that attending Harvard demonstrates personal success thus far in our lives. Some of us even let this perspective limit our future potential and pervade our worldview. What??s more, sitting in Cambridge, with the world’s most influential people streaming through our classes and lecture halls, lauding our institution perpetually, it’s easy to believe that every child, everywhere, aspires to our position...
...made the case that there are other motivators to drive people to create economic growth beyond what Coase or other economists would have said in previous generations," Palfrey said. "He has helped us explain what??s going on with the open source world and phenomena such as Wikipedia and how it is that the Internet has facilitated or amplified the extent to which people create things when they’re not just getting paid money...
...we’re the dog! They’re the tail,” Menand said. “Secondary field people and the language citation people and the study abroad people are the tail, but they got in there first. Then it looks like, what??s this Gen Ed thing? But actually Gen Ed was supposed to be centerpiece of the curriculum...