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Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense
Correction Appended: April 16, 2009 For the past several years, I’ve been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life’s exit ramp
Education: Well Begun Is Half Done
In the next two months, some 1,400 teen-age boys and their parents all over the U.S. will tremulously collect the credentials—IQ scores, grades, test results, recommendations, interviews—needed to apply for admission to what they are sure is the nation's best prep school: Massachusetts' Andover.
Nuclear Physics: Father of Fission
NUCLEAR PHYSICS The nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Can Young People Save Japan?
Of all the calamities that have befallen Kouhei Nagatsuka, age 18, in the past month — the March 11 earthquake that devastated his home in Futaba town, the radiation seeping from the quake-and-tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant next door, the fleeing from shelter to shelter with nothing more than the clothes on his back — it is the smallest of privations that elicits emotion.