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That's not bad for a documentary film that, given the nature of its medium and its distressing subject matter, is bound to have limited audience appeal. But, of course, serious documentarians never work for money or fame. Since the beginnings of the genre, their aim has usually been to call attention to injustice and, if possible, correct it. Berg got onto this story by making segments about the topic for news programs, then found she could not avoid making the O'Grady case the focus of her first full-length film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Fact To Friction | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...typing in an e-mail, blog entry or online comment form, it puts a little red line under dubious spellings. Right-click the word to see correctly spelled suggestions. Ironically, it just like using Microsoft Word. It worked in Hotmail, although it didn't work in AIM's web mail program. Mozilla says its up to webmasters to enable or disable the feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Two Browsers are Better than One | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...goal of the university as the institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and reason. (There is certainly no shortage of forces in the world pushing toward ignorance and irrationality.)My first reservation pertains to the framing of the “Science and Technology” requirement, which aims too low. I think the problem lurks in some of the other sections, but I will leave it to my colleagues in other departments to comment on those.The report introduces scientific knowledge as follows: “Science and technology directly affect our students in many ways, both positive...

Author: By Steven Pinker | Title: Less Faith, More Reason | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...higher wages was to invade Summers’ personal life. This is akin to the students from Social Analysis 10 lobbying Professor N. Gregory Mankiw at his home to curve their midterms up. Most would agree that such a move would be completely inappropriate, which is why tactics that aim to make a scene rather than to convey a real argument often backfire. Those who might otherwise believe that workers should receive better benefits thus avoid SLAM due to its alienating strategies...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein | Title: Reasonable Activism | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...latest paper was the fifth and final segment in a series that Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert J. Blendon has been working on since 2001 with the aim of publicizing the American peoples’ concerns regarding health care...

Author: By Brenda C. Maldonado, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Health Costs Top Public’s Concerns | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

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