It said American school kids can't write very well.

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What I'd like to ask you to think about a little today and to share with you, and I'll try to do it without taking my spectacles out, but I don't write very well and I don't read too well as I get older, is what I think this meant for us today.

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"I think - and this is where the New York Times may have had trouble as well - that scientists are very difficult to write about, partly because it's very hard to get your head around what they're doing, " he says.

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Although a few big, well-known companies folded after the stockmarket fell, banks have in fact had to write off very few bad loans.

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