Word: equalization
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...BASIC QUESTION: WHY TEACH THE BIBLE and not comparative religion? It may not be necessary to provide Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism with equal time, but it seems misguided to ignore faiths that millions of Americans practice each day; and a glance at the headlines further argues for an omnibus course. Yet could a school demand that its already overloaded kids take one elective if they take the other? Concerns about whether a Bible Belt Christian teacher could in good conscience teach a religiously neutral Bible course also plagued me. Was high school Bible study one of those great ideas that...
...profile players like Hank Aaron and Jim Bouton and owners like George Steinbrenner, and chafed in 1969 when Curt Flood unsuccessfully sued the league to become a free agent. (In 1977 arbitrators ruled in favor of free agency.) But Kuhn launched the playoffs, ruled that female reporters should have equal access to the locker room, inked a deal with NBC to air night games of the World Series--and saw attendance triple...
...team recently discovered unexpectedly that one of their engineered mosquito strains is “fitter” than ordinary mosquitoes. Once you infect it with a certain strain of mouse-borne malaria parasite, it lives longer and produces more offspring than infected wild-type mosquitoes. Place equal numbers of the two types of mosquitoes into the same cage, let the birds and the bees do their thing for a few generations, and the bioengineered insects take over, accounting for 70 percent of the mosquito population...
...directed “The Importance of Being Earnest” that year, felt minorities were unrealistic in their expectation of color-blind casting. “Theater is an unfair business,” he said. “Minorities inevitably will not have equal opportunities in casting because most plays are written for a white, realist audience.” Petrosino also cited the alienation of common casting and the niche groups of BlackCAST and the now-defunct AAA Players as reasons for lack of minority involvement in mainstream theater. Eight years later, it remains to be seen...
...death squads have played a gruesome game of tit-for-tat. Last fall, a senior U.S. intelligence official in Baghdad explained that one side would always seek to take advantage of the other's weakness, which necessitated that the U.S. move to weaken and dismantle both in equal measure. To demonstrate, he put his hands up at the same level and brought them down simultaneously, as if closing a window...