Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.
Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.
People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
