Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supervisor for the HMV store in New York City's Herald Square, says Hill's CD is racking up heavy sales: "The people who are buying it are all ages, all backgrounds...but I've noticed a lot of adult, together women buying this CD. Lauryn Hill is their peer, and so they want to buy her album...
Rather, say behavioral geneticists, the "non-shared" environment is where the action is. Jimmy and Johnny find different peer groups at school, or different niches in a single peer group; Jimmy becomes valedictorian, Johnny becomes trouble. What's a mother to do? Non-shared environments outside the home, not parents, get the blame in Harris' theory...
...Glenn recalls. "And I told him someone ought to look into this." Goldin, savvy about the wiles of flight-hungry astronauts--even flight-hungry astronauts who haven't flown in 34 years--saw medical merit in the argument and offered Glenn a deal. If the science held up to peer review, he promised, and if Glenn could get past the same physical every other astronaut must pass, NASA would seriously consider his proposal. But, Goldin added, "we've got no open seats just for rides...
When one of Boehner's staff members opened the office door to peer outside, Capitol policemen were stationed in the hall. "The policeman told us to lock the door and stay inside," he says. Other officers gathered up tourists and shoved them into whatever offices they could, telling them to stay put as they tried to restore order and determine whether Weston was acting alone. The building was sealed, and officers began a room-to-room search, blocking stairways and elevators. When they had determined that this was not a coup, not a conspiracy, but rather another loner with...
...some much advertised union reforms remain cosmetic. Leaders of both unions have embraced "peer review" of teachers, where a new teacher's performance is judged for an entire year by a "consultant teacher." Peer review also seeks to identify and weed out veteran teachers who aren't performing. Feldman calls it "the best kind of teacher evaluation out there," but others call it a sham, designed to give unions even more control over personnel decisions. A handful of districts, taking their cue from the national union leaders, have successfully instituted peer review. But more often, local unions have ignored...