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...Jakobshavn gives way to the fjord, a stadium-size iceberg suddenly implodes, disintegrating like a collapsing skyscraper. I watch as a plume of mist fills the air where the iceberg once was, while the fjord churns on. And then I wonder, Just how much time do Greenland and the rest of us have before it's too late? That may be up to us--and the heroes we choose to follow...
...accountable within their own classrooms. If a teacher knows that her bonus is based on an average of her students’ scores, she will be more inclined to work closely with students who are most deficient in basic skills, hoping to accelerate them to the pace of the rest of the class. Ideally, schools wouldn’t need to use test scores or report cards to measure teacher performance, and monetary rewards would not be necessary. But with the educational system in crisis, critics who bemoan the shortcomings of standardized testing simply cannot afford to ignore that such...
...only ones who are coming in and out of the neighborhood,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense to me to have all of these wonderful improvements stop at Barry’s Corner and then leave the rest of the neighborhood as it is.” Glavin reassured the audience that the city would ensure that the community would benefit from the University’s transportation improvements. “We need to see that Harvard is not only willing to build paths from door to door between their...
...would just say, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, so you'll get it from me - I look at that totally different than any of the rest of this. Those charters were set up a long time ago by Congress with the ambiguities and the obligations around that. This was living up to our responsibilities as the United States of America. There was $5.4 trillion of debt, mortgage-backed securities and debt here and around the world, $3.7 trillion...
...feat would be both a technological and public relations triumph. "Beijing is signaling to the rest of world that it is a first-rank space power," says Dean Cheng, China analyst with the CNA Corp., a U.S.-based think tank. "It is capable of doing things only the U.S. and Soviet Union have done. It is ahead of Japan and the European Space Agency in terms of space flight...