The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. 61) All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become "better" people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.
But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school. 62) Others find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out -- often encouraged by college administrators.
Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves -- they are spoiled
For someone whose life has been
shattered, Hiroshi Shimizu is remarkably calm. In a cramped Tokyo law office,
the subdued, bitter man in his 30s—using an assumed name for the interview
relates how he became infected with the HIV virus from tainted blood products
sold by Japanese hospitals to hemophiliacs during the mid-1980s. "I was raped,"
says Shimizu. "I never thought doctors would give me bad medicine. " last year, Shimizu was shocked when a doctor newly transferred to his hospital broke the news. Four years earlier, he had asked his previous doctor if he could safely marry. "He told me: ’There’s absolutely no problem,’ even though he knew [I was infected]," Shimizu says. "I could have passed it to my wife. " Luckily, he hasn’t. Shimizu is one of more than 2,000 hemophiliacs and their loved ones infected with the deadly vi A. was around thirty odd with his pseudonym B. was called Hiroshi Shimizu who was raped by the doctor C. was an infuriated, clamorous adolescent who got married four years ago D. was a greatly upset young man who got his blood transfusion about ten years ago 我来回答: 提交
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