Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more intriguing studies, conducted in Australia, found merit in Chinese herbal treatments for irritable-bowel syndrome, a gastrointestinal disorder that strikes 10% to 20% of the population in many industrialized countries and for which conventional medicine often offers only symptomatic relief. The study also showed the lengths to which researchers must go to make sure that the benefits ascribed to herbal remedies are not due to a biased analysis of data, or to patients' expectations--the so-called placebo effect...
...wise, will make better decisions more frequently than the nation as a whole. We recognize the right of all individuals to participate in the governing process, to help choose the laws under which they must live. Possession of marijuana, though an act which may deserve punishment, does not merit permanent severance from the body politic...
...difficult to put Microsoft's legal woes down to misleading snippets that only appear to show anticompetitive behavior. Tuesday's ruling in the Sun Microsytems suit, for one, forces the company to stop pushing a "polluted" Windows-only version of Java; the judge said Sun's case had "real merit." Gates has since grudgingly decided to support pure, Scott McNealy-brand Java in Windows 98. "We're moving to make our product comply with the order," he told the AP. Will the beleaguered billionaire be saying the same once the government case is complete? "Just wait until the Microsoft people...
...face, the lottery-for-scholarship idea seems like a model of Third Way, New Democrat innovation. The HOPE money is awarded based on merit, so, unlike welfare or affirmative action, its recipients can't be stigmatized as undeserving. And it doesn't raise anyone's taxes. Dixie's Democrats have finally found a winning strategy consistent with their best principles...
...Teachers take a shred of truth--in Gardner's case, that students have different aptitudes and learning styles--and manipulate it into the absurd, so that students build boats instead of reading and writing about European settlers. These education theorists have replaced knowledge with process, phonics with whole language, merit with relevance and rigor with self-esteem. As a teacher who plans to retire soon, I shudder to think what the future holds for our youth if these college-of-education charlatans continue to reign. JOHANNA HAVER Phoenix, Ariz...