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...participation is as important as the participation of all of their peers. Many fail to participate in evaluations, however, because of the unfortunate timing. Students currently have only until their final exam to complete that course’s evaluation. This restriction—which is meant to prevent students’ exam experience from affectig their evaluation—is profoundly misguided. Not only should the complete reflection on a course include their impression of the final exam, but students also should not be expected to fill out their Q forms when they could be studying for their tests...
Better yet, experts say, prevent that risk from ever climbing: keep children fit from the beginning. "If you're trying to prevent this problem, then you want to establish good food habits early. You want to keep children away from the food industry messages to eat unhealthy food. It could be that earlier years will be the best time to begin that education," says Dr. Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale...
...model of dengue control, was floored by an outbreak in 2005. Reported cases went down the following year, but are back up again slightly in 2007. "That's a kind of warning to us," says Hales. "As the temperature continues to increase, it gets progressively more difficult to prevent the disease from spreading - even with the best technology...
Could anything prevent that from happening? Sure. Rogers--a co-founder, with George Soros, of the Quantum Fund--ticks off a list of danger points, including potential military conflicts (with Taiwan as the No. 1 candidate), political instability, social unrest, widening gaps between social classes, labor turmoil, dwindling resources, environmental threats and the like. But, he says, "China doesn't have to be perfectly mistake-free in order to produce some of the most profitable companies in the world...
...wasn't just the intelligence community that had been trying to prevent the war hawks in the Administration from bombing Iran. The Secretaries of State and Defense and the leaders of the uniformed military had decided that diplomacy was the best way to deal with an admittedly hostile and dangerous foe in Tehran. Almost exactly a year ago, after the firing of Donald Rumsfeld, the President met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the "Tank," the Pentagon's secure facility. Bush asked the Chiefs about attacking Iran. He was told that a bombing campaign could do severe damage...