Maybe one day we'll see robots with minds of their own. Some interesting developments are being showcased this week in Austin, including robots that could help in disasters. Our brains are an amazing engineering feat, and we haven't been able to find any artificial things similar to that. In Eugene, discord broke out, with critical letters peppered the local newspapers. One local rabbi picketed the event, and another resigned from a festival planning committee in protest.
New Jersey is a great college town.
We're doing what we can. New Jersey, of course, is not a town, but a state, and not even precious advertising hype dulls the phrase's jarring strangeness. And, of all the good and bad things for which New Jersey is known, the pervasiveness of higher education is not one. Drew tries hard, but even former Gov. Tom Kean, Drew's president and most ardent booster, admits he loses out to places like Swarthmore and Bowdoin. No other private college here even tries to be highly selective.