why do our policies matter? Why would you want to work with us if our policies don’t match yours? If that’s the case, shouldn’t you be happy to not work with us?
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really find out for yourself if this is the school in which you would like to work. Don’t be afraid to hire your employer, because firing them or being fired by them, is worse.
"The postal service is already carrying more junk than first class," says postal consultant Campbell. "Pretty soon it's going to be a government-run advertising mail delivery service. Does that make any sense? It doesn't make any sense."
There are still flaws in the USPS's junk-centric plan. The service now predicts that total mail volume will decline from 171 billion pieces annually in 2010 to 150 billion in 2020. That's a best-case scenario. The worst-case, according to its own projections, is 118 billion.
"more, bigger, faster, cheaper" doesn't necessarily add up to or equal "better, wiser, smarter, fitter, closer." Examined closely, relative to GDP, living standards already did collapse: examined closely, measures of gross industrial output decoupled from still deeply flawed but perhaps slightly more meaningful measures of human welfare, like the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare and Genuine Progress Indicator, which have at best sharply lagged, or at worst flatlined, for decades. (And lest you pooh-pooh these updated conceptualizations as the utopian visions of idealists, remember that the Measure of Economic Welfare, for example, was conceived of by no less than Nobel Laureate James Tobin.) Concisely: the opulence bubble says that stuff probably yields sharply diminishing returns in human terms. It means that we can pursue Olympian levels of output, live in skyscraper-sized McMansions, drive Sherman tank-sized SUVs, glued to Jumbotron-sized 3D TVs — but it's at best unclear whether and at worst improbable that doing so will power any lasting marginal boost in our capacity to live meaningfully well, especially when you factor in the hidden costs and unintended consequences of doing so.
Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It's one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men's shirt buttons on the right and women's on the left. Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of Style—prescribes a single space after a period. (The Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, used widely in the social sciences, allows for two spaces in draft manuscripts but recommends one space in published work.)
My students? Always use one space, please. As your draft manuscript reviewer, I can handle it.
our resolutions are not failed acts of the will, but successful acts of the imagination. You will not enrol in a doctoral programme and spend more time with your kids and lose 20 pounds in 2011 just by resolving to do so. But you will be far more doomed to fail – and far more emotionally impoverished – if you never even dream up those plans in the first place.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
