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...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 on the day of the massacre. These are examples of how easily...
...think to some extent, work ethic and hard work could be considered that,” she says. “I think that in a sense, the idea of working hard, getting what you deserve, and good deeds are values that are based in, at least in China, very much based in family values...
...great learning experience,” Kuzmuk said of the competition. “[Richardson] is such a hard worker. It was great to know we could work together and do our best...
...Scientists in the developing world are best positioned to work on problems that affect their communities but do not have the resources to do it properly, so a lot of these problems go unstudied,” said Dudnik...
After being quoted in a collegiate newspaper that he had “challenged” an economic study penned by two Harvard faculty members, a sociologist at the University of Texas has insisted that he was not formally critiquing their work, but rather providing an alternative explanation for the economic successes of certain societies compared to others...