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...discovery of Tiktaalik a pivotal moment that profoundly shifts the balance in the tension between those who accept evolution and those who question it? Probably not. Those who regard creationism as dogma will probably remain unmoved by any manner of scientific evidence. For those who are uncertain, however, the fishapod may be a source of enlightenment, a demonstration that we can recover ancient clues to events clearly predicted by the theory of evolution...
...philosophy - just letting them be - to children after the age of five," she says. "Would they continue to do their job as children?" There's a twist in Russell-Head's case. A schoolteacher in Melbourne for 10 years before Anastasia came along, she might have been expected to regard teaching as a job best done by professionals. But that's not her view at all. While teacher training is worthwhile, she says, its main benefit is to prepare trainees for tutoring large groups. "Anyone can teach one-on-one," she says. "And my method wasn't really teaching, anyway...
...Listening to homeschooling parents, it can seem that some of what they regard as depravity and rebellion is just youth asserting its independence. There's a bigger issue here that advocates of homeschooling tend to skirt. Socialization is too complex a phenomenon to be reduced to whether a child is sweet-natured and has a few chums. School does no less than expose children to the diversity of human nature. It's where they make, over the course of a decade, thousands of acquaintances. They might not have been friends with the weird kid, the brainiac, the pretty...
...offered expanded incentives along with the threatened penalties. The really bad news for Washington hawks is that the only incentives that matter are those that can be offered by, you guessed it, the U.S. And if Washington balks at offering Tehran what most of the international community would regard as reasonable security guarantees, it won't only be Iran that finds itself isolated...
...made. Indeed, the official form of Islam in Saudi Arabia, commonly referred to as Wahhabism, is undoubtedly “conservative” in that it rejects what it sees as changes introduced into Islam since the time when the religion was established by the Prophet Mohammad. In this regard, the label “reactionary” applies more or less as well to Wahhabi beliefs as it does to Protestant Christianity, which rejected the Catholic Church’s teachings on much the same basis. A great many U.S. leaders—not least the current president?...