[TOC] ## unit1 1. The current `state of affairs` may have been `encouraged`—though not `justified`—by the lack of legal `penalty `(in America, but not Europe) for data `leakage`. 2. Superhigh scores like vos Savant’s are no longer possible, because scoring is now based on a `statistical `population distribution among age `peers`. 3. A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee’s safety and Entergy’s management especially after the company made `misleading `statements about the pipe. 4. It was banks that were on the wrong planet, with accounts that vastly `overvalued `assets. Today they argue that market prices `overstate `losses, because they largely `reflect `the `temporary ` `illiquidity `of markets, not the likely extent of bad debts. 5. However, the Justices said that Arizona police would be allowed to `verify` the legal status of people who come in contact with law `enforcement`. 6. The `administration `was in `essence `asserting that because it didn’t want to carry out Congress’s immigration wishes, no state should be allowed to do so either. 7. That’s one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication `dedicated `to the near future. 8. In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the `hard-line` Republican governor. 9. Pushed by science, or what `claims to` be science, society is `reclassifying `what once were considered character `flaws `or `moral `failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities. 10. But somewhere from the 19th century `onward`, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworth’s `daffodils `to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil. 11. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson `determined`, was a process known as `deliberate `practice. Deliberate practice `entails `more than simply repeating a task. Rather, it `involves `setting specific goals, `obtaining ` `immediate `feedback and `concentrating `as much on `technique `as on `outcome`. 12. These recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher `inartistic ` `quality `than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing. 13. And there are the `townsfolk `who largely `live off` the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s `Cottage`, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights. 14. In Arizona v. United States, the majority `overturned `three of the four `contested provisions `of Arizona’s `controversial `plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law. 15. America’s new plan to buy up `toxic `assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find `attractive`. 16. There is a `marked difference` between the education which every one gets from living with others, and the `deliberate `educating of the young. 17. Databases used by some companies don’t `rely on` data collected systematically but rather lump together information from different research projects. 18. Because `representative `government `presupposes `an` informed citizenry,` the report supports full `literacy`; stresses the study of history and government, particularly American history and American government; and encourages the use of new digital technologies. 19. In several of the studies, when stressed-out female `rats` had their ovaries (the female `reproductive organs`) removed, their chemical responses became `equal to` those of the males. ## unit2