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Above the gold level is "open" competition, in which a checklist of required steps takes a backseat to individual choreography and style...
Tales like that have begun to sway some policymakers. Last week the office of California Governor Gray Davis issued a report urging schools to proceed with caution on Mosaic, and other such programs. The U.S. Education Department is backing away from the checklist of warning signs it sent to every school in the nation in 1998. In a mass mailing this week, the department declares that relying on such lists can "harm children and waste resources." Instead, it counsels teachers and parents to use the much lower-tech and more labor-intensive approach of keeping their eyes and ears alert...
...story manages complete a cliche checklist of space movie standards: Personal and heart-warming introduction to the astronauts who are preparing to go to Mars after years of training and personal sacrifice. Check. Crew set to leave, but one guy (whose lifelong dream is to travel to the red planet) is left behind because of heartless bureaucracy. Check. Guy left behind is sad and left alone to gaze mistily into the camera and yearn for his one big shot. Check. Attractive astronauts go to Mars, but meet a nasty disaster and all end up dead, except for one. Double Check...
There is nothing clear about ADHD. The diagnosis is based on a checklist of subjective judgments--rating a child's inattention, distractibility, impulsivity and so on. It's hard enough for doctors to distinguish between an energetic teenager and one who has a behavior disorder. How can they make those judgments when the patient is still learning how to talk...
Brown says the organization recently completed finalizing the standards for accrediting external monitors and is now working on a 30-page "checklist" for monitors to refer to when conducting inspections. Brown says he expects this stage, which will include a series of test runs, to be completed by the spring...