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...politics and the media industry and the ways that readers can participate in news media. “There is no more strict line between journalists and consumers,” Maier said. Stein will research political activists’ use of the media to gauge government tolerance and assess the risk of participation in anti-regime activities. Goodman, who was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary, will examine a possible new gender gap in news media and the Internet. Goodman, a 1963 graduate of Radcliffe College and a former Neiman Fellow, has published several books and worked...
...essential resource, familiar to every faculty member, that supports a high standard of instruction. Poor instructors should be required to attend classes at the center. The Center should require that professors have students evaluate courses partway through the term. Additionally, professors and other faculty should observe and assess their peers’ teaching. Any professor who fares poorly on these evaluations should be required to take remedial courses at the Center. If they continue to receive poor feedback on their teaching, they would continue to visit the Center until they shape up or ship out (well, maybe...
Stanford neuroscientist Brian Knutson has zeroed in on a more primitive aspect of making choices. "We come equipped to assess potentially good things and potentially bad things," he says. "There should be stuff in your brain that promotes your survival, whether you have learned those things or not--such as being scared of the dark or the unknown." Knutson calls these anticipatory emotions, and he believes that even before the cognitive areas of the brain are brought in to assess options, these more intuitive and emotional regions are already priming the decision-making process and can foreshadow the outcome. Such...
...understanding that doing so cannot be used against them in a criminal court. Posessing drugs is still illegal - the tax works completely outside the criminal justice system. A stamp cannot provide immunity from criminal prosecution, and a conviction of possession isn't required for the Department of Revenue to assess the penalties...
...coming months and years, we plan to devote a great deal of energy and reporting to covering China's remarkable transformation. We're fortunate that TIME's Asia edition is headquartered in Hong Kong; our reporters and editors there have long used their vantage point to assess how a changing China is changing the world. As Michael Elliott, editor of TIME International and author of this week's cover story, says, "Watching China now is like being in one of those science-fiction movies where you can see a whole new planet take shape before your eyes...