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...evidence of success is strictly anecdotal. James Hunter, professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of Virginia and author of "The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil," argues that the actual effectiveness of character education programs is "highly dubious." He writes that "even the very best of these programs ?are unimpressive - not only in their long term but also in their short-term effects." His conclusion is especially devastating: ?"At the end of the day, these programs may do more for adults than they do for children. At least they salve...
...fallout means the end of one executive career - Honeywell CEO Michael Bonsignore may well be jettisoned by the company's board - and an dubious final chapter of another, the Corporate American Hero Jack Welch, who was planning to retire after the deal went through...
...Jackson's opprobrium are gone; even Gates has receded under the considerable shadow of CEO Steve Ballmer. Windows XP, due out this fall, is much more respectful of non-Microsoft software than its predecessors (they've made it very easy to choose Netscape as your default browser, for example). Dubious add-ons like the "smart tags" that linked words to websites chosen by Microsoft have been quietly ditched...
...matter--but the new discoveries prove that ordinary matter and exotic particles add up to only about 35% of what you would need. Ergo, the extra curvature must come from some unseen energy--just about the amount, it turns out, suggested by the supernova observations. "I was highly dubious about dark energy based only on supernovas," says Princeton astrophysicist Edwin Turner (no relation to Michael, though the two often refer to each other as "my evil twin"). "This makes me take dark energy more seriously...
...news more by choosing stories and crafting prose to match their respective importances. If we don’t hear about a conflict, or if few of us do, then it likely won’t be considered as important. In short, we need diversity not to satisfy dubious pieties but to make sure we accurately, comprehensively and sensibly cover the campus...