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...just because we rarely attend class. But why bother going, or changing the duration of the passing period for that matter? After all, lecture videos always start on time and if Hollywood has taught us anything, it is to not meddle with time travel—err, travel time. Nevertheless, for those who are routinely late, we have come up with several solutions, each better than any that we’ve heard proposed thus far. Instead of increasing travel time across the board or lengthening classes, we could instead adopt a cellular service style pay-per-minute lateness plan...
...Republican nominee John McCain, Castellanos said, might err on the side of recruiting too few academic leaders...
...political divide aren’t rabid partisans. They’re citizens genuinely concerned about the best way to run the country, and they find plausible answers coming from both political parties. When deciding on their vote, they’re loth to listen to demagoguery. When they err, they’re likely to turn away from those who belittle their error. To Huffington, it may be clear that the issues of the day “simply do not have two sides.” To that fraction of the electorate that has swung Republican...
...piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 23]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed up behind them, the doors...
...piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 23]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed up behind them, the doors...