The corporations insist that US students are now too dumb for STEM, but there are as many good students as ever.

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" But Alex Hitt, who owns the farm with his wife Betsy, says its unofficial motto is "We're too dumb to quit.

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So instead of shaking our collective heads in disgust, with acid-in-tongue comments like players are too dumb to understand it, or owners are too greedy to share it, we should simply recognize that although it would be better to sit at the kitchen table and hash it out like a honest principled family, this is just a day in the life of transactional law.

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To me, chess is a great activity, but I may also be too chess-dumb to realize I should be pushing him toward a scholarship.

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Most people nowadays can't remember their friends' phone numbers -- in spite of being in constant contact with them -- and correct spelling is growing largely irrelevant when doing a Google search with all those ultra-smart (okay, sometimes they can be real dumb too) suggestions.

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Yeah, so you mean the thing that brought the new kind of nuclear phenomena back into the spotlight after the previous big fuss over that pair of dumb chemists who were all too hasty to announce they had found the perfect new energy source.

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They are wise in recognizing that they are too close, too knowledgeable, too ingrained in their industries and environments to be able to step back and ask dumb questions.

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