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Inflicting bodily harm can actually be a poor method of extracting information. A detainee is likely to be so eager to end his pain he will confess to anything, even untruths, notes Rick Smith, a retired 25-year veteran...
Given an increasing reliance on science and scientific analysis, Summers said students will need to have real understanding a “working knowledge” of scientific method...
...that Michigan's goal of a "critical mass" of minorities to ensure diversity was important enough to justify the use of race in admissions. Most colleges and universities say they use a more holistic approach which factors in race more generally by seeing it as a "plus" factor. This method is more like the University of Michigan's Law School, and the Court's ruling protects that practice as constitutional. For those who oppose affirmative action, the Court said that in 25 years it expects colleges and universities no longer to use racial preferences to create diversity. But that...
...patients like Valdez are finding themselves abandoned. In Las Vegas, where a number of obstetricians have stopped accepting patients, forcing some women to drive to Utah for prenatal care, a pregnant radio host took to the airwaves and begged her listeners to help her find an obgyn. (Her unorthodox method worked.) In Pennsylvania, a particularly unlucky senior has lost his neurosurgeon and orthopedic surgeon to other states, and now his rheumatologist and urologist are threatening to move as well...
Cohen hopes that research firms like Morningstar and Thomson Financial will one day incorporate his method into their rating systems. In the meantime, you can approximate his research by focusing on the top 25 holdings. That fund information is available at morningstar.com Compare a young fund's top holdings with those of good and bad older funds in the same category. You want a lot of hits with the good funds and few with the bad ones--unless you're feeling lucky...