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...system that will give skilled workers higher priority in receiving a green card. Although there has been some debate as to the exact formula used, the innovative idea of a system that gives greater weight to skill is a step in the right direction. If the US wants to maintain its place as a technological and intellectual superpower, giving priority to skilled workers will be very important in the coming years. Scientists and engineers who are citizens of other nations, especially countries such as China, India, and Japan, are attaining better education and training, filling many of the top jobs...
...China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). On May 18, China raised interest rates for the second time in two months, marking the first time in 17 years that the government had stacked rate increases on top of each other so quickly. Beijing also announced that banks would have to maintain higher reserves-an effort to curb bank lending that is fueling China's 10% annual GDP growth. "People don't think the train is off the tracks yet," the CASS economist told TIME, "but it's going about as fast...
More daylight Maintain the reporting requirements of NCLB but encourage states to provide a fuller picture of school quality than the bare bones of AYP. Congress should offer incentives--carrots, not sticks--for school districts to provide more information to their communities, including high school graduation rates, measures of student growth, participation in gifted and talented programs and achievement in the arts...
Though some Medical School faculty maintain that Harvard’s conflict-of-interest rules are reasonable, “no one says they’re too permissive,” according to Christopher T. Walsh ‘65 , former chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, who has sat on committees to review Harvard’s policies...
...Harvard University Library is one of the country’s greatest intellectual assets, but it is enormously complex and expensive. It must maintain its leadership while helping to shape the new information society of the 21st century," Darnton said in a statement. “Having, as a historian, studied the world of books in the distant past, I now have an opportunity to do something for the cause of books and book learning in the present...