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...wonder some parents want a firm hand to restore order. (Though as a parent, I should note that having a kid gives you only an extra tax deduction, not an extra vote.) The government cannot regulate violence on TV, but some lawmakers are advocating that it do so. And it is an election year. Hillary Clinton and John McCain have both been active in media-decency issues, and Barack Obama cited his bona fides as a concerned parent at a recent debate...
Cash for Capture The State Department is so confident that some unnamed Southeast Asian terrorists will be nabbed "in the near future" that its new budget asks for an extra $6 million to pay for their capture via its Rewards for Justice tips program. There are more than $704 million of outstanding reward offers worldwide. A few of the region's most-wanted extremists...
...work with other teachers and visit one another's classrooms. And teachers continue to advance throughout their career. With aid from the government, teachers in Singapore can pursue three separate career ladders, which help them become curriculum specialists, mentors for other teachers or school principals. These opportunities bring recognition, extra compensation and new challenges that keep teaching exciting and allow teachers to share their expertise...
...profile on one’s own is an important safeguard. “It’s like having a password so that people can’t hijack your account or delete it,” he said. “It’s just an extra precaution for people who do use Facebook as a utility for networking.” Kevin T. Burrows ’10 said that while he remains slightly suspicious of Facebook’s security, he wouldn’t delete his profile during his undergraduate years because the site...
While there was some relief at this week's Danish police action, the Intelligence Agency's swift arrest of the three men in the country's second-largest city, Aarhus, has raised legal questions. Two of the men, Tunisians ages 36 and 25, were to be administratively extradited, an extra-judicial shortcut that would avoid taking them through a trial. Meanwhile, the third man, a 40-year-old naturalized Dane of Moroccan origin, was released for lack of evidence, also without a trial. The security service explained that it had achieved its goal: to prevent a murder. It said that...