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...make digital phone calls over the Internet, has become popular with consumers worldwide because it's a cheap way to phone. But in communist Vietnam?where authorities have effectively blocked access to pro-democracy blogs and websites, and e-mails are presumed to be scanned?VoIP has also proven a relatively secure means of political networking. There, activists use VoIP to contact each other, take part in conference calls and live debates, and post recorded voice messages via online forums available on the websites of VoIP providers such as PalTalk, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype. "Skype is like a miracle," says...
...Griles, who left the department in January 2005, says he was cleared because all the allegations investigated by the IG were "conclusively and unquestionably proven to be false." Norton tells TIME that of the two potential violations the ethics office kicked back to her, "one was about a dinner Steve Griles had in the home of a lobbyist (which Griles paid for), and the other was a question about the definition of a 'particular matter' under federal ethics guidelines. On that latter point, I simply viewed Mr. Devaney's interpretation as legally incorrect...
...Beware of Dubious Teaching Secrets The media crowned a study as the answer to the Boy Crisis - but the study's "proven" effects are negligible at best
...would be amazed at the weird variables that education researchers have found can improve student performance. They might all be factually proven, but that doesn't make them meaningful policy fodder. For instance, classroom windows. Studies have found that math scores improve when classrooms have windows - especially if the window looks out on verdant lawns. This is no meaningless improvement; it's as powerful a factor as whether computers are in the classroom. In one Fresno, Calif., study it even mattered which direction the windows were facing! (Facing east was best). But we'll never see two politicians on Meet...
...What Pakistan needs is compromise: between provinces, between religion and secularism, between the desire for growth and the imperative to check inflation, between us and our neighbors. But a government led by a President in a soldier's uniform has proven ill-suited to striking compromises. So we must try the alternative: a return to democracy, with its inherent horse trading, messiness, and false starts. Such a transition will not be without risk, and many Pakistanis are frightened by the potential for instability. But the alternative, a continuation of the status quo, in which our President lacks the legitimacy that...