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...government seems altogether appropriate. Asking ten-year-olds to read about the horrific deaths of their fellow children, however, may not be the best way to do this. Sarkozy is not an educator, and as a consequence his attempt to design a comprehensive curriculum for schoolchildren is inane in comparison to his political decisions. Sarkozy obviously never consulted French educators on his plans for the French education system, ignoring both the logistics of implementation and the psychology of the children he would influence. It would serve him well to listen to the people chosen by the French to educate their...
...that if one in 100 Americans are imprisoned, it is because one in 100 Americans has committed a criminal act that merits incarceration. It seems implausible that this enormous economic and social burden is justified. Although some argue that high rates of incarceration have led to lower crime rates, comparison with other industrialized nations reveals the fallacy of their argument. High rates of imprisonment have had little effect on the homicide rate in the United States, which remains four times higher than in Western Europe, where preventative measures such as gun control have more effectively reduced violent crime. Rates...
...have a plethora of comparison points on the political issues of the day. But as we look toward November with both parties eyeing potential swing voters, sides are beginning to blur. How can we tell the parties apart these days? Perhaps tribal signifiers won't rest on positions vis-a-vis Iraq or universal healthcare. Instead, our true colors might come out when we examine what we do on the Web. Do blue state Web surfers prefer visiting tennis sites while red staters prefer golf? There are ways to find...
...concludes that great performance comes mostly from deliberate practice but also from another activity: regularly obtaining accurate feedback. In a 1997 study published in the journal Medical Decision Making, researchers found that only 4% of interns had known a group of elderly patients for more than a week; by comparison, nearly half the highly experienced attending physicians had known the patients for more than six months. But even with the advantages of years of medical experience and months of knowing the patients, the attending physicians were no more accurate than the interns at predicting the patients' end-of-life preferences...
...Tata’s step in a positive direction.Economics professor Lawrence H. Summers has said that current levels of gross domestic product per capita in India—essentially, standards of living—are roughly equivalent to those in America pre-Civil War. As such, the closest automobile comparison to the Nano would be the Ford Model T. The Model T first rolled off the assembly line in 1908, its production reaching 15 million within 20 years. That is three times the rate at which Tata plans to introduce its no-frills vehicle. Furthermore, Model T fuel consumption averaged...