Word: journalism
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...Wednesday, Amazon is expected to introduce a new, bigger-screen Kindle aimed at the textbook market and newspapers. The Wall Street Journal reports that half a dozen universities will be giving students the new Kindle in the fall; Amazon has also struck deals with a number of textbook publishers. (See the top 10 gadgets...
...column for the Wall Street Journal, Rove claimed that “no president in the past 40 years has done more to polarize America so much, so quickly.” This indictment was seconded by Gerson, who declared Obama to be more polarizing than Presidents Nixon, Reagan, or Bush in an Apr. 8 column for the Washington Post, and Wehner, who, in a blog post Apr. 6 for Commentary Magazine, asked, “Is a record-setting divide among Democrats and Republicans at such an early point in his presidency really the change we were told...
...nearly successful underground breaches at bases and prisons where suspected terrorists are held. "Protecting underground perimeters is the next capability gap to be bridged in the force protection arena," Lt Colonel Robert Tucker, of the Army's Maneuver Support Center at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, wrote in a recent journal article...
...supposed uncontroversial nature of the provision is undercut by the difficulty of evaluating intangible factors that determine whether a teacher is highly qualified.The neutrality of the provision’s assumptions “are especially problematic in rural schools,” Karen Eppley argues in the 2009 Journal of Research in Rural Education. While logistical challenges of rural schooling make the provision problematic in rural areas to begin with, Eppley argues that greater issues result from external, homogenous determinations of teacher quality. A teacher who is highly qualified to teach in Chicago, for example, might lack sensitivity...
...According to The Wall Street Journal, Citi is asking to lift "pay restrictions that could break apart its legendary energy-trading unit." If the government turns the request down, it is indeed likely that many of these people will leave for hedge funds, start their own businesses, of join banks based outside the U.S. The bank is not making an idle statement. If critical people leave, so does critical income. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...