Word: rigorousity
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To Delaney, such reasoning is flawed because it suggests that some victims who might be helped by experimental drugs may die while the traditional methods of testing drugs work their slow and cumbersome way. Pressure from AIDS activists has resulted in the FDA's allowing wider use of such experimental...
The only aspect of this century-old anecdote that might be dated is Adams' surprise. This year, when Harvard sifted through 12,843 applications to fill 1,605 places in the class of '93, undoubtedly many of these would-be students (and their parents) were motivated by equally crass considerations...
First-year students will face more rigorous exams, made tougher in response to criticism that the requirement was too superficial.
The U.S. teaching profession gets generally low marks in Silber's book. He lambastes U.S. schools of education as an "unintentional conspiracy to defraud the American public because they are certifying the ineducable to be educators." To draw a better pool of prospective teachers, he suggests scrapping the current time...
The decision reinforced the rigorous standard of evidence imposed on public figures who sue for libel, and struck some journalists as reasonable in that context. Editor Eugene Roberts of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted, "After every press conference, where often you can't hear very well, you will see three or...