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Oil Companies—Some Run by Former Bush Officials—Make a Risky Move Into Kurdistan
A fascinating article on Iraq oil, political division, foreign investment and ulterior motives.
“He points out that medicating kids who might be better at hunting so that they can sit quietly in a school designed to teach farming doesn’t make a lot of sense.
A kid who has innate hunting skills is easily distracted, because noticing small movements in the brush is exactly what you’d need to do if you were hunting. Scan and scan and pounce. That same kid is able to drop everything and focus like a laser—for a while—if it’s urgent. The farming kid, on the other hand, is particularly good at tilling the fields of endless homework problems, each a bit like the other. Just don’t ask him to change gears instantly.”
Precisely what the docs told my parents… the whole scan an pounce thing. Now I’m pouncing like a mofo. Full post