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...atheist can live without fear of reproach for being open about their beliefs. Atheists are not monsters or ignorant anti-patriots. We are good citizens who value tolerance. I am also proud to say that on the average we are highly intelligent. Atheists have unusually high numbers in academia and science. This is why so many of the more outspoken atheists have joined to defend science and reason in the classroom from creationists, anti-science postmodernists and all those who would conveniently brush aside or suppress scientific findings that they find disagreeable...
Traditional careers like academia and law have seen a surfeit of new entrants. With the crisis in health-care costs, even the stability of medicine as a career seems in doubt. And the perverse outcome of America's obsession with higher education has resulted in a race among all for post-baccalaureate credentials while primary and secondary schools in urban communities stagnate, restricting the pool of students qualified to apply to Harvard...
...Jews, and Kawar is correct in nothing that Israel has complications in defining its national identity. But to characterize Israel as a theocracy represents a simplification of the myriad elements of identity at play: Jewish religious identity, Jewish ethnic identity and Israeli Statist identity. The fact that academia, the press, the public and the parliament (where both Arab and Jew are represented) can debate issues like the Law of Return reveals that Israel is a democracy in which supreme power is held by the people. To lump Israel with its neighboring anti-democratic governments is to ignore the fundamentally democratic...
...reasonable review process to haveoffices, adjunct professorships and PrincipalInvestigator (PI) status on grants. This isstandard at most institutions in the country," shesays. "At the moment, though, there are no optionsat all for faculty spouses. Either both must beaccept for tenure, both must leave the University,or one must leave academia, unless one can find ajob in another university in the Boston area...
While an undergraduate at Wilperforce University, Wilson was inspired to pursue a career in academia by one of his professors, Maxwell Brooks...