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Following a yearlong controversy about grade inflation, professors unanimously adopt a new 4.0 grading scale and restrict the proportion of honors awarded each year to 60 percent. The Class of 2005 will be the first to feel the effects of these changes...
...Dogan, like other owners of major Turkish media outlets, now will be able to own, legally and publicly, what he already controls clandestinely. With the emergence of private television stations in the early 1990s, Turkish corporate giants such as the Dogan Group have used nominal companies to get around restrictions designed to prevent monopoly ownership of the press and broadcasting outlets. At the same time, they also have delved into a variety of other businesses, even bidding for government contracts in such non-media fields as electricity distribution. "I've fought since 1995 to change the aspect...
When two-thirds of the murders in the U.S. are committed with guns, one would hope that politicians would be taking prudent steps to restrict access to firearms. Against all common sense, Attorney General John Ashcroft is working to make guns more easily available. Last Monday, the Justice Department reversed its longstanding position on the Second Amendment “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” reinterpreting it as an individual right to own guns rather than a collective right to bear arms in a militia. Ashcroft’s policy reversal confirms many...
...couples when they allow those with even more easily transferable conditions to marry. A child whose parents each have a single gene for a recessive disease such as sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis has a 25 percent chance of actually contracting the disease, yet the government does not restrict their marital choices. Even more damning is the case of dominant genetic diseases like Huntington’s disease, where if even a single parent has the disease, the child has a 50 percent chance of contracting...
America’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels is alarming. Pollution from these fuels is a known cause of acid rain, a contributor to serious health problems and perhaps a cause of global warming. Moreover, America’s foreign oil demands severely restrict the range of U.S. foreign policy options in the Middle East. Nuclear technology is the right energy production method for the shift away from fossil fuels while renewable energy technology remains unfeasible. Of course, expanded nuclear production should not be a license to waste energy; conservation efforts should be used to maintain energy demand...