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(...) I guess it also depends on what you're learning-- I get the sense (From other people I know in the field) that things like Biochemistry and Medicine are a little more fact-oriented than method-oriented. Unlike (in my case) computer (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Maybe you just have overly expensive taste in groceries... Next time you come across such a cashier and your order is $7.78, give him $10.28 and watch his mind melt. (...) That is a fantastic observation! By the end of my fourth semester (my (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One thing which makes me tend not to trust these education surveys is that in the US, almost every child goes through high school, and a huge percentage go to college. In other countries, starting somewhere around the high school age (or even (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh. You're omitting the important part! 8^) You've previously described "smaller tyrannies" as preferable to One Mega Tyranny, and as more beneficial to the flexibility of the marketplace. I have come to agree, and I think it holds for (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I can't think of many overpaid Government employees, but looking at a picture of the castle that the CEO of Enron is/was having built made me sick. Everywhere in commercial companies there's a handful of fat cats (literally, usually) who just hand (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Haha! That's classic! It would be nice comic relief if those guys showed up in the new Starship RPG... :) -H. (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, we just need to give geography some sex appeal-- then we'll learn it! :) (...) I once knew all the state capitals. Now I remember probably about half of them. I have to admit, though, sometimes I'm suprised to see how many American (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think I know who you mean and he certainly wasn't hired by ME, not even a little bit. Nor was his dad, for that matter. (...) Ashcroft? Not sure who you mean, as there are so MANY candidates, unfortunately, that fit the description. (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Maybe if americans would concentrate more on geography and less on Britney Spears they'd get their 'precision bombing' right the next time... These surveys are not designed to make american kids look stupid. They're just made to test general (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I can think of one gov't employee I'd really like to see fired, but he was more-or-less hired by his dad. I've worked a number of jobs alongside sons or daughters of the employer, and time and again I've observed their tendency to, let us say, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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