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...also began, with a few colleagues, Newsweek’s popular “Conventional Wisdom Watch,” which ascribes up-and-down arrow judgments to the weekly news reports...
...against conventional economic wisdom to suggest that the floods were not the sole cause of famines that ensued. Rather, he suggested, longstanding socioeconomic weakness among local farmers, due to insufficient support from the government, was also to blame...
Though Summers used some old jokes, he did offer some new words of wisdom. He told students yesterday to embrace their intellectual talents, strive for multiple perspectives and “think things through...
...Congress should determine afresh its wisdom, its consistency with basic democratic principles of humane treatment, and its conformity with international and domestic law,” stated the letter...
...saying that any of this is easy--the folks in the Weight Control Registry appear to be working harder at maintaining their weight than those who have never had a weight problem. But the conventional wisdom among experts that 95% of all dieters are doomed to regain their lost weight may be too pessimistic. One reason researchers have such a bleak view of dieting is a famous study of 100 people conducted in the late 1950s by Dr. Albert Stunkard, now a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Only two of his subjects were able to maintain their weight...