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...easy, since its worst forms happen during the early teen years, just when most youths stop talking to their elders. "Young people can be very secretive," says Gerard McAleavy, an education professor at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. "It's part of their struggle to construct their own identity." Peter Niebling, headmaster of a high school in Hanover, suggests the trend toward smaller families may play a role. "Many children have no siblings and thus don't know how to interact and coexist with their peers in school," he says...
...week, it fueled doubts that Iran was negotiating in good faith. And according to European diplomats, the ruling clerics show no sign that they would agree to the West's bottom line: that Iran permanently abandon development of all nuclear technology that could give the nation the capability to construct an atomic weapon. The lead Iranian negotiator, national-security chief Hassan Rowhani, head of a commission on nuclear policy that reports directly to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, says, "Terminating our enrichment activities has been our red line and still...
George becomes far too enchanted with the real-life heroics of the Ruesesabagina family, failing to construct characters to whom an audience can relate. Rusesabagina does not demonstrate a profound shift in moral composition: he is constantly good...
George becomes far too enchanted with the real-life heroics of the Ruesesabagina family, failing to construct characters to whom an audience can relate. Rusesabagina does not demonstrate a profound shift in moral composition: he is constantly good...
...addition to promoting more faculty along the tenure track, departments are conducting increasingly broad searches for professors. “We try to construct searches to be as broadly defined as possible,” Huth says, “because then the odds of identifying qualified women candidates can get substantially better...