On the other side of the equation, many young Americans are interested in, and engaged with, the world beyond their borders -- which says something about the kind of business and political leaders they'll be after graduation.

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It took me awhile to realize it was an earthquake, at first I thought it might be some kind of equipment malfunction in the house or helicopters outside or something like that.

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"I'm not going to be so stuck in the mud that an opportunity to actually get something done is flagrantly wasted because of a kind of predetermined stubbornness, " he told U.S.-based journalists.

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The social welfare system was likened to foreign relations and national security, as something on which the whole society should be able to come together and support as a kind of national duty.

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So it's kind of like, you can be in the kitchen making a sandwich or something, and you hear Claudia in the room with her synth or something, doing something, and you have to respond.

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The place where something like that would be most useful would have to a pen-based computer of some kind, perhaps a tablet computer, or other walk-around device.

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It would be difficult to imagine something less likely to spring from a child growing up in industrial Manchester in the 1950s than poetry of this kind.

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They pointed out that Schapiro is something of an insider in the clubby world of Wall Street, hardly the kind of person who can be counted on to shake things up.

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