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According to the panel, while digital media presents excellent opportunities for education, its effectiveness will depend on overcoming the debate over its use in the classroom...
...From China's perspective, it makes sense to use any means possible to counter America's huge technological advantage. A current wave of hacking attacks seems to be aimed mainly at collecting information and probing defenses, but in a real cyberwar, a successful attack would target computer-dependent infrastructure, such as banking and power generation. "Can one nation deliver a crippling blow to another through cyberspace?" asks American Sami Saydjari, head of the private computer-security group Cyber Defense Agency and former president of Professionals for Cyber Defense. "The answer is a definite yes. The Chinese know we are much...
...world is a third world country,” he added, pointing to the world’s disproportionate distribution of wealth. “I don’t believe there is a choice between development and environmental sustainability,” he said, emphasizing that the two depend on each other. Calkins, the first speaker, said that international development has showed a consistent lack of ethical concern for the environment. As an example, he presented the history of the development of the automobile industries in the United States and in China. “It is crucial that...
...students proved decisive: They articulated an opposition message and galvanized its sympathizers far more effectively than Venezuela's older political elite ever could. It was a force Chavez had not planned on reckoning with, particularly since students have long been a bloc that Latin America's political left could depend on. Chavez also couldn't withstand the defections within his own bloc, including socialist state Governors and, perhaps most important, his erstwhile pal and former Defense Minister, Raul Baduel, who earlier this month called Chavez's amendments a "constitutional coup d'etat." The attempt by Chavez and his backers...
Ryan added that teaching fellows frequently depend on the ratings as part of their resumes...