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By positing a government conspiracy with limitless resources, the more fervent believers in the Myth also inoculate themselves against heresy: any concrete evidence the government or anyone else unearths to prove that the crash was strictly terrestrial is obviously engineered--it's a cannier brand of fundamentalism. The appearance of...
Bill Clinton, who during his 1992 presidential campaign refused to use his power as Governor to stop the execution of a brain-damaged black convict in Arkansas, told TIME in an interview last week that he is comfortable with the way the death penalty is applied in America. Revisiting the...
A spokesman for Gore insisted last week that there was no connection between Molten Metal's success at securing government subsidies and the contributions Haney made to the Vice President and his party. But in this case, Gore did not need to pick up the phone to have direct influence...
The success of Ma Bell's progeny is no accident. A Penn State study found that the stocks of 161 spin-off companies between 1965 and 1990, on average, rose 76%, vs. a market average of only 43%, over three years. Why? Often spin-off companies become more focused, and...
First, an emphasis on modes of inquiry discourages students from questioning the presuppositions that in part distinguish one discipline from another, and from trying to make connections between different disciplines--or even between different approaches within the same discipline. Second, the notion that students automatically acquire core intellectual skills and...