I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues. ↗
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. ↗
There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. ↗
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture. ↗