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Scientists have made lots of projections over the past few years about how warming temperatures and a changing climate will affect the planet. Real-world measurements have confirmed at least some of them: sea level is clearly rising, for instance, and the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking and thinning - in the latter case, faster than anyone had expected just a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Climate Shift the Biology of Ecosystems? | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

...Lewis '68. "There is nothing special about computer science students," he said in an e-mailed statement. "It's just easy to copy computer code, and the incidence of any apparently profitable bad behavior increases as it becomes easier."  However, Lewis noted that "in the 100-level CS course I teach every fall, cheating is very rare...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CS: "Computer Science" or "Cheating Students"? | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

...local level, the push to undo the Sunday ban may face even stiffer 
opposition. Jerry Oberholtzer, mayor of Snellville, Ga., has been 
waging a six-year battle to legalize Sunday sales in hopes of bringing
 what he calls "white tablecloth restaurants" to town. But members of
 Snellville's First Baptist Church and others have thwarted his
 efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liquor Laws Make Valentine's Day Blue | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

...After intense high-level negotiations the two governments agreed that UBS would provide the names of 4,450 Americans with the largest undisclosed Swiss bank accounts. But no sooner was the ink dry on that deal than the Swiss courts ruled that no such disclosures could be made under Swiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. vs. Swiss Tax Cheats: A Whistleblower Ignored | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

Critical thinking is essential to a healthy and progressive education. Unfortunately, this type of instruction is not employed within the borders of Saudi Arabia at the high school or college level. Saudi schools do not emphasize the importance of independent thinking, opting instead to conveniently spoon-feed students information that does not test their mental capabilities...

Author: By TALAL M. ALHAMMAD | Title: The Education Dilemma in Saudi Arabia | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

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