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...Force inquiry into the mishap obviously couldn't cite pilot error. But humans were to blame. The bevy of experts tending to the aircraft missed the programming snafu because, according to the accident report, "each thought another part of the process was checking for this type of error...
...famine. Three straight years of scant rainfall have caused the blistering of large tracts of grazing land, killing off herds of livestock and resulting in the death of hundreds of people, a figure that could rise alarmingly in coming months. Several countries are affected, with Ethiopia hardest hit. "Villagers cite the death of camels as a proxy for the severity of water scarcity," says Gerald Martone of the New York City-based relief organization International Rescue Committee. "The demise of these hardy animals is a testament to the wrath of this drought...
Impressive as all this sounds, nobody is sure what it will be like to live with any of these machines long-term. Maybe technology has merely found a more efficient way to torture heart patients. But horrifying as it was, many mechanical-heart researchers cite the Barney Clark disaster as pivotal. Despite a hiatus after Clark's demise, scientists eventually resumed their research with increased federal funds, and the FDA began developing greater expertise in evaluating the devices. Now that expertise may actually start saving lives...
Specifically, students cite high student-to-faculty ratios at the school as a result of inadequate support from the University. Not only do the students note GSE has the highest student-to-faculty ratio of any of Harvard's schools, but also the highest of the U.S. News & World Report's top 50 education schools...
Both sides cite statistical studies and anecdotal evidence to support their case. Unfortunately, statistical studies in education are notoriously unreliable--blind studies, for example, are difficult to construct. And for every charismatic teacher who succeeds with a "progressive" approach in the classroom, there are other teachers who manage to raise test scores dramatically by "going back to basics...