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...computer screens, but more often than not, our gripes ring hollow. The truth of the matter is, most of us don’t value our own or others’ privacy as much as we claim to. With PerezHilton.com getting millions of hits per day and the quick death of the facebook.com Mini-feed uproar, the proof is in the pudding...
...Measuring the significance of late-arriving scores depends almost entirely on your perspective on standardized tests. As the federal NCLB law comes up for reauthorization next year, testing critics are quick to point to the extensive delays. "Nowhere have schools stopped functioning because of the missing test scores. But they also don't know if they've moved up or down the performance ladder," said education advocate Julie Woestehoff, executive director of the Chicago-based non-profit Parents United for Responsible Education. She hopes snafus like Illinois' may actually help in rethinking the law's parameters to include other forms...
...adopted child. I wonder how much Madonna understands that. Madhuri Pai Singapore Proliferating Primates Re "Way too much monkey business" [Nov. 13], on the overpopulation of rhesus macaques in Delhi: The problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In the quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue - creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity...
...generation," he says. The juwae, says the B.R.N. guerrilla, "aren't interested in dialogue with anybody. They just want to fight." Such divisions will complicate government efforts to negotiate a cease-fire encompassing all parties. "There are many groups so it's hard to hold talks and to find quick solutions," Defense Minister General Boonrawd Somtas told reporters last week...
...Harvard men’s hockey team’s jubilation after scoring two quick goals in the opening minutes of Saturday night’s game deteriorated into frustration when Princeton scored three unanswered power play goals and an empty-netter in the closing seconds for a 4-2 win at the Bright Hockey Center.“I’m embarrassed,” captain Dylan Reese said. “This is the first time that I’ve ever been embarrassed of my team in the three years that I’ve been...