Products of the "information age, " Obama's academically oriented backers seem to have trouble distinguishing between words and actual things.

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Ironically, military enlistees, who must learn to recognize a problem (like, where a bullet is coming from) and then solve it or die, may be better equipped to compete in the real world than their academically oriented brothers and sisters!

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Where educational or training programs are designed to provide students with professional experience in the furtherance of their education, and the training is academically oriented for the benefit of the students, the students will not be considered employees of the institution to which they are assigned, provided the six criteria are met.

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In a 2009 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, David Lubinski and his team at Vanderbilt found that in a sample of academically gifted young adults, women became less career-oriented than men over time.

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