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...next week or two,” Lubin says. Although students can’t do much until Obama officially declares his intention to run, the Facebook group already has 73 members as of February 2nd.A serious, mainstream ticket headlined by a minority would be ground breaking for obvious reasons, and Obama’s charisma might mobilize an unusually large population of Harvard students. “He does have a reputation that’s going to bring a lot of people together,” says Harvard College Democrats president Brigit M. Helgen...
...teachers. Study after study shows that teachers are crucial to student performance, vastly more important than any other single factor. So if students do particularly well, teachers should be rewarded with higher pay. And, if a particular teacher consistently performs poorly—students regularly lose ground in his or her class—that teacher should be asked to find work elsewhere...
However, Hayes notes that the idea that Chinese prisoners are willfully donating their organs to “society” (i.e. to rich Westerners) is tenuous at best. In a country where convicts are often taken directly from the courtroom to the execution ground and due process is a figment of the imagination, ethical considerations about prisoners’ rights seem a bit out of place. Indeed, Hayes’ conversation with the father of an executed prisoner highlights this reality. When asked whether his son ever consulted with him about donating his organs after his execution, the father...
...right to Judea and Samaria,'' says Joseph Ben-Shlomo, a leader of the right-wing settlers' movement Gush Emunim, ''you doubt the very justice of Israel's right to be.'' To further intimidate any doubters, Israel has for the past 21 years established what it calls ''facts on the ground,'' settlements that have changed the face of the West Bank and Gaza. Some 67,000 settlers have moved into well over 100 new compounds. The settlements are almost always built on high ground, in order to command the surrounding countryside, and part of the rationale for the settlements was that...
...faux insects, named Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), even physically resemble insects, weighing less than a paperclip with a two- to three-centimeter wingspan. The only thing is, these micro-creatures haven’t yet left the ground...