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...While there's little doubt that humans are helping heat up the planet, the questions of how much, how quickly and leading to what consequences are fiendishly difficult to pin down. That's because the actual climate is still far more complicated than any existing computer model can accurately reflect, making predictions iffy at best. Some natural processes nobody has yet thought of could end up blunting the severest impact of global warming...
...crucial part of how freshman year equalizes students’ future opportunities, simply by helping all students develop a similar capacity to write argumentative essays.The real headaches begin with the Core Curriculum. In order to start fulfilling Core requirements, many students are encouraged to take the classes that least reflect their interests—that way they will be sure that whatever concentration they may pick, the classes will count for Core credit. These classes, however, are no help in understanding what one’s primary academic interest will be. On the other hand, those who ignore Cores freshman...
More importantly, students who learn about their course grades so late into the following semester are effectively robbed of a chance to productively reflect on the courses they just completed. Indeed, the blame for this must be shared by the Registrar and course instructors. With the advance of each day, the demands of spring semester bear more heavily on schedules, and the likelihood of revisiting one’s performance on a fall final or paper decreases. In many classes, finals and papers are never returned to students unless those students seek them out. This pedagogically bankrupt practice should...
...such as gay marriage and abortion, but completely ignore these same leaders when they protest an immoral budget. Pastor Fred Haynes of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas pointed out the hypocrisy of Christian politicians who voted for this bill, saying, “Budgets, in a real sense, reflect your real spirit and your real heart. Don’t tell us about being faith-based, don’t tell us about compassionate conservatism when your budget slashes and does damage to those who are most vulnerable...
...Salient is] totally out of the mainstream. It doesn’t reflect the values of anyone but a fringe group of people...