Various Contrivances

“ Is it really good for future generations - the alleged beneficiaries of this deluded parsimony - to pass down a clapped out wreck of a town in need of major repairs and upgrades, long-deferred works that become more expensive with every minute they are neglected?

— globeandmail.com: Debt free in a clapped out wreck of a town

“ Only when significant numbers of people lived downtown, planners believed, could central cities regain their historic role as magnets for culture and as a source of identity and pride for the metropolitan areas they served. Now that’s starting to happen, fueled by the changing mores of the young and by gasoline prices fast approaching $5-per-gallon.

— Trading Places

“ Many hospitals put the drugs “on reserve,” but an apparent cure-all was too tempting for some physicians, and the tight stewardship slowly broke down.

— Medical Dispatch: Superbugs: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

“ Ask a Kandahari what he wants from his government and you’ll get a familiar answer: not vast ideas but practical solutions to everyday problems

— Boston Review — chayes.php

“ Success in the sciences unquestionably takes a lot of hard work, sustained over many years. Students usually have to catch the science bug in grade school and stick with it to develop the competencies in math and the mastery of complex theories they need to progress up the ladder. Those who succeed at the level where they can eventually pursue graduate degrees must have not only abundant intellectual talent but also a powerful interest in sticking to a long course of cumulative study.

— How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science - Chronicle.com

» globeandmail.com: We must green the market

» On Language - Me, Myself and I - NYTimes.com

“ Ontario is not Alberta, and the philosophy that provincial rights should be paramount has always had to compete with a powerful sense that Canada comes first.

— globeandmail.com: Ontario struggles to decide whether or not it exists

» BBC NEWS | Magazine | No time to think?

“ Unfortunately, it’s all pure bunk. To get serious about energy policy, America needs to abandon, once and for all, the false promise of the hydrogen age.

— The New Atlantis » The Hydrogen Hoax