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...helping low-wage commuters, toll prices have already been built into housing prices and wages, so it’s clear that this matter did not warrant such extreme action. In a choice to essentially grant a subsidy to either motorists or subway passengers, the state of Massachusetts has chosen the former, and in so doing, demonstrated its backwards priorities...
Relate the school to life,” wrote educational philosopher John Dewey in 1907, “and all studies are of necessity correlated.”In 2006, the Harvard Task Force on General Education, a small committee chosen to rethink last year’s General Education proposal regarding the Core curriculum, wrote on page four of their preliminary report, “General education is the place where students are brought to understand how everything that we teach in the liberal arts and sciences relates to their lives.”While no Opal Mehta...
...attorney Chip Lewis told TIME: "Everybody wants the employees and the folks affected by the collapse of Enron to recover as much of their their losses as possible. However, I don't believe the vehicle that the government has chosen to pursue is an efficient way to do that. There's so much civil litigation out there already - now that they do not have a criminal conviction to anchor their forfeiture upon, this is nothing more than another civil suit. It's a use of taxpayer dollars to attempt to recover in a method that's really duplicative of many...
...rate normally declines with age, though the study shows that avid churchgoers experience about half the rate of decline as those who did not attend church. Lead author of the paper Joanna M. Maselko, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at HSPH, said lung health was chosen as the dependent variable in the study to represent overall health because researchers had access to data on this measure. According to Maselko, the link between churchgoing and health cannot be labeled a causal effect despite the strong correlation between the two variables. The scope of the study is limited...
Wiki Spawns Rival New site aims for more accuracy Citizendium, a new Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, has debuted in limited beta testing. Anyone can write an entry (apply at citizendium.org) but editing is limited to chosen experts...