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...course, the cost of having an intellectually-engaged president is that occasionally he will emit ideas that are politically offensive or, in some cases, just plain wrong. After all, as Karl Popper taught us, providing refutable hypotheses is at the very core of scientific progress. I would hesitate to count the number of incorrect hypotheses that I come up with in the course of a year. Luckily, I have colleagues and students who point out my errors. If we are to have a scholar-president, we must treat his false hypotheses in the same way that we treat the false...
...that logic should apply to faculty as well. I can’t count the number of times that professors have proudly proclaimed that they learn something new every time they teach a course. Since by their own admission, faculty are students of a sort too, it seems fair to me that they too should be suspended (without pay, naturally) for documented cases of plagiarism. Visible punishment of faculty plagiarizers would likely discourage undergraduate academic dishonesty...
...though Harvard took just four, seven, and five shots on goal in the three respective periods, the visiting team made them count, notching a strike in each frame...
...science teacher in Baltimore, Md., was offering lessons in anatomy when one of the boys in class declared, "There's one less rib in a man than in a woman." The teacher pulled out two skeletons--one male, the other female--and asked the student to count the ribs in each. "The next day," the teacher recalls, "the boy claimed he told his priest what happened and his priest said I was a heretic...
...clarity about what to do. Two questions occupy the Bush team's sometimes highly divided proliferation squads: Just what is the nature of Pyongyang's arsenal? And what, if anything, can be done about it? The type and number of weapons Kim has remain unknown. Most analysts think the count is fewer than a dozen. Size actually matters more than quantity: the smaller the warhead, the easier it is to mount it in an airplane or atop a missile. Several of Pyongyang's medium-range systems, if operational, could reach Japan; one long-range weapon could theoretically reach Alaska...