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...teach into the 21st century. Right now we're aiming too low. Competency in reading and math-the focus of so much No Child Left Behind testing-is the meager minimum. Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient. Today's economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills. Here's what they...
...Chertoff defends even aspects of the ATS data collection that might be deemed trivial and a needless invasion of privacy. In certain cases, for example, the U.S. can obtain the meal preferences of a passenger. Chertoff points out that such cases require special high-level approval from both the U.S. and international law enforcement authorities. The point, says Chertoff, is to use all the tools we have to act before the terrorist do. "If we sit back and just rely on a list of names, we will likely miss something. And we do not want to be in that position...
...handbags, silk underwear, plasma TVs, baby grand pianos, jetskis, snowmobiles and eau de toilette. It's not just an attempt to personally aggravate the Dear Leader, who enjoys a notoriously plush lifestyle even while many of his countrymen starve. Cutting off the supply of expensive gifts Kim lavishes upon high-level loyalists to ensure their allegiance could undermine his rule enough to force him back to the negotiating table-or so the theory goes. But efforts to deprive him of such baubles are "at best pinpricks," says North Korea expert Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, "slightly raising...
...possible, barely, to reduce the novel to a finite plot description. Hal Incandenza is a gifted, troubled student at a high-level Boston-area tennis academy founded by his late father. Down the road is a drug-rehab center inhabited by an assortment of seedy and desperate characters, notably one Don Gately, a cheerful Demerol addict "with a massive and almost perfectly square head he used to amuse his friends when drunk by letting them open and close elevator doors on." Then there's a film clip so entertaining you die if you watch it, and a cell of wheelchair...
...Iranian and Syrian activity is taking place against the backdrop of growing instability within Lebanon's government and Saturday's upcoming vote among government ministers to bring the assassins of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri before an international tribunal - a process that is expected to implicate high-level Syrian officials. Hizballah pulled out of the country's coalition government recently after its push for greater representation was rebuffed; many observers viewed the push for effectve veto power as motivated by its concern that prime minister Fouad Siniora would try to begin the process of Hizballah's disarmament that...