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...launched a study on how the district's grading system affects students. (Fairgrade, initially a co-sponsor of the study, jumped ship in December when its members disagreed with how the school board characterized the results.) Based on the findings released in early January - which showed that changing the scale would slightly boost GPAs but was inconclusive about whether it would help students get into better colleges - the school board on Jan. 22 agreed to start using a higher premium for tough courses and to adopt a new variant of a 10-point grading scale...
...alternative to giving U.S. businesses a direct incentive to start hiring people tomorrow is waiting to see if the stimulus package will work on a grander scale. That would be simpler. Four or five large business sectors would get capital to offer hundreds of thousands of jobs each to create the equivalent of a new economy...
...Using a robotic camera mount and special software, photographer David Bergman stitched together 220 separate images of the Inauguration to create a large-scale photo so zoomable that you can see details down to the notes on the pages of the band's sheet music. Look, the Bush daughters had blankets! Look, Yo-Yo Ma is taking a picture with his iPhone! Look, Newt Gingrich isn't even watching Obama give his speech! On his website, Bergman says his panorama, a virtual Where's Waldo of Inauguration Day, is 59,783 pixels wide by 24,658 pixels tall; the photo...
...understand the scale of the challenge facing him as President Obama's envoy to promote U.S. interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke might consider the story of Amjad Islam. Islam, a schoolteacher in Matta, Pakistan, refused to comply when local Taliban leaders demanded that he hike up his trousers to expose his ankles in the manner of the Prophet Muhammad. The teacher knew Muslim teachings and had earned jihadist stripes fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Their edict was wrong, Islam told the Taliban enforcers; no such thing had been demanded even by the Taliban regime...
...findings imply that controlling biomass combustion, particularly the small-scale burning of wood and dung for home heating and cooking common throughout Asia and Africa, will be an important step towards improving the world's air quality. Gustafsson, a professor of biogeochemistry at Stockholm University, urges environmentalists not to limit their efforts to curbing car traffic and coal-fired power plants. He says fighting poverty and spreading green technologies that limit emissions from small-scale biomass burning are equally important. "More households in South Asia need to be given the possibility to cook food and get heating without using open...