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...sure, institutional improvements are a step in the right direction, but the question of motivation seems far more important. As the Report of the Standing Committee on Advising and Counseling argues, “Good advising requires clarity of expectations on all sides; students need to be as prepared to discuss and explore as they expect their advisers to be, and to see the advising relationship as interactive...
...alone at the college level. Not only is college completely optional education, it is also a time of specialization for those who attend. Many students go to college to learn a particular skill; most colleges require students to major in one specific field or another. How can one expect a music concentrator to have the same strengths as a biology concentrator? To satisfy these national education requirements, colleges would have to completely alter their educational philosophies.Furthermore, standardized tests in general are an enormous waste of time and money. Students waste countless hours in the standardized testing process; whether the hours...
...Pandemic Flu Seattle's King County could be struck at any time by an earthquake, tsunami or the eruption of nearby Mount Rainier. But the thing that has Eric Holdeman, director of the county's office of emergency management, really worried is the threat of a pandemic flu. "We expect to need 57,000 hospital beds," says Holdeman of a worst-case scenario. "We have 3,500. There's not enough ventilators, there's no vaccine, there's not enough Tamiflu...
...treasure - and I mean human treasure - on the line to try to give Iraq an opportunity for a democratic government,? Rice said. ?I said that we were very proud of what they had achieved to now. But I did explain that given the sacrifice, people expect that process to continue and it can't now get stuck at the most important stage, which is to deliver on the Iraqi people's sacrifice...
...When asked pointedly by an Iraqi journalist on Monday morning if she was interfering in Iraq?s sovereign affairs, Rice said countries like the U.S. who gave lives so Iraq could be ?liberated from a tyrant? have a ?right to expect? the formation of a government, but it is up to Iraqis themselves to chose who will take the seats. ?We should not and will not say who the prime minister of Iraq should be,? said Rice...