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1.
While warnings are
often appropriate and necessary the dangers of
drug
interactions,
for
exampleand
many
are
required
by
state
or
federal
regulations,
it
isn't
clear
that
they
actually
protect
the
manufacturers and
sellersfrom liability if a customer is injured.
2.
At
the
same
time,
the
American
Law
Institute
a
group
of
judges,
lawyers,
and
academics
whose
recommendations
carry
substantial
weightissued new
guidelines for tort law stating that companies
need
not
warn
customers
of
obvious
dangers
or
bombard
them
with
a
lengthy
list of possible ones.
3.
But
it
is
hardly
inevitable
that
companies
on
the
Web
will
need
to
resort to push strategies
to make money.
4.
An
invisible
border
divides
those
arguing
for
computers
in
the
classroom
on
the
behalf
of
students'
career
prospects
and
those
arguing for computers
in the classroom for broader reasons of radical
educational reform.
5.
Very few writers on the subject have
explored this distinction indeed,
contradiction
which
goes
to
the
heart
of
what
is
wrong
with
the
campaign to put
computers in the classroom.
6.
An education
that aims at getting a student a certain kind of
job is a
technical education, justified
for reasons radically different from why
education is universally required by
law.
7.
Rather,
we
have
a
certain
conception
of
the
American
citizen,
a
character who is incomplete if he
cannot competently asses how his
livelihood and happiness are affected
by things outside of himself.
8.
Nor, if regularity and conformity to a
standard pattern are as desirable
to
the scientist as the writing of his papers would
appear to reflect, is
management to be
blamed for discriminating against the
among researchers in favor of more
conventional thinkers who
well with the
team.
9.
For a while it
looked as though the making of semiconductors,
which
America
had
invented
and
which
sat
at
the
heart
of
the
new
computer
age, was going to be the next casualty.
10.
F
ew
Americans
attribute
this
solely
to
such
obvious
causes
as
a
devalued
dollar
or
the
turning
of
the
business
cycle.
Self
doubt
has
yielded to blind pride.
11.
W
hen a new movement in art
attains a certain fashion, it is advisable
to find out what its advocates are
aiming at, for, however farfetched
and
unreasonable their principles may seem today, it
is possible that
in years to come they
may be regarded as normal.
12.
W
ith
regard
to
Futurist
poetry,
however,
the
case
is
rather
difficult,
for whatever futurist poetry may beeven
admitting that the theory on
which it
is based may be right it can hardly be classed as
Literature.
13.
B
ut
it
is
a
little
upsetting
to
read
in
the
explanatory
notes
that
a
certain
line describes a fight between a Turkish and a
Bulgarian officer
on a bridge off which
they both fall into the river and then to find
that
the line consists of the noise of
their falling and the weights
of the
officers: 'Pluff! Pluff! A hundred and
eighty-five kilograms.
14.
A
imlessness
has
hardly
been
typical
of
the
postwar
Japan
whose
productivity and
social harmony are the envy of the United States
and
Europe.
coming of age of the postwar baby boom and an
entry of women
into
the
maledominated
job
market
have
limited
the
opportunities
of
teenagers
who
are
already
questioning
the
heavy
personal
sacrifices
involved in climbing Japan's rigid
social ladder to good schools and jobs.
often
praised
by
foreigners
for
its
emphasis
on
the
basics,
Japanese education tends to stress test
taking and mechanical learning
over
creativity and self-expression.
an odd way, however, it is
the educated who have claimed to have
given up on ambition as an ideal. What
is odd is that they have perhaps
most
benefited from ambition if not always their own
then that of their
parents and
grandparents. There is a heavy note of hypocrisy
in this, a
case of closing the barn
door after the horses have escaped
——
with the
educated themselves riding on them.
d,
we
are
treated
to
fine
hypocritical
spectacles,
which
now
more than ever seem in
ample supply: the critic of American materialism
with a Southampton summer home; the
publisher of radical books who
takes
his
meals
in
three-star
restaurants;
the
journalist
advocating
participatory
democracy
in
all
phases
of
life,
whose
own
children
are
enrolled in private schools.
growth
of
specialisation
in
the
nineteenth
century,
with
its
consequent
requirement
of
a
longer,
more
complex
training,
implied
greater problems for amateur
participation in science.
trend was naturally most obvious in
those areas of science based
especially
on
a
mathematical
or
laboratory
training,
and
can
be
illustrated
in
terms
of
the
development
of
geology
in
the
United
Kingdom.
to say, this project has
turned out to be mostly low-level findings
about factual errors and spelling and
grammar mistakes, combined with
lots
of
head-scratching
puzzlement
about
what
in
the
world
those
readers really want.
it
sponsors
lots
of
symposiums
and
a
credibility
project
dedicated to wondering why customers
are annoyed and fleeing in large
numbers. But it never seems to get
around to noticing the cultural and
class biases that so many former buyers
are complaining about.
world
is
going
through
the
biggest
wave
of
mergers
and
acquisitions
ever
witnessed.
The
process
sweeps
from
hyperactive
America
to
Europe
and
reaches
the
emerging
countries
with
unsurpassed might. Many
in these countries are looking at this process
and
worrying:
the
wave
of
business
concentration
turn
into
an