WeGrow: A New School To Help 5-Year-Olds Pursue Their Life’s Purpose
"WeWork’s vast network of creatives and entrepreneurs, Neumann hopes, can help WeGrow students cultivate their passions."
"WeWork’s vast network of creatives and entrepreneurs, Neumann hopes, can help WeGrow students cultivate their passions."
"Ivy League strivers in the U.S. may think they have it tough with their Advanced Placement tests and résumé-polishing community service. But they have nothing on the offspring of China, where a ticket to prosperity boils down to a couple of exams that have been known to induce breakdowns or even suicides: a high school entrance exam, the Zhongkao, and a college test, the Gaokao."
"If you live in the industrialized world, you probably can’t pass B. infantis on to your baby. Not even if you give birth vaginally, breast-feed exclusively and eat well."
"This practice—overly suspicious government officials seizing children from their parents—isn't confined to Minnesota."
"Under slavery, children were sold separately from their parents. The separation of children from their parents was also imposed on native American Indians."
"That the separations only began after a discretionary decision by the administration shows that Trump’s insistence that Democrats are obstructing a fix is nonsense."
"Now the FBI has managed to anger both major political parties and much of the country. It's demonstrated its capacity for political meddling and misuse of power—even if people disagree on who was on the receiving end. That offers a rare opportunity to pull the plug on a dangerously powerful agency at a moment when its potential for bias, arrogance, insubordination, and plain incompetence are on public display. Let's kill the FBI while we can."
"Many of its current members -- they include China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- have poor human rights records themselves."
It is clear officers can be impeached and removed for major crimes, but what is a “high . . . Misdemeanor?”
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 20, 2018) – Yesterday, a California Assembly committee passed a bill that would increase oversight and transparency of law enforcement surveillance technology. Passage of the bill would take the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance state.…