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...CONS: News Corp and Microsoft may not work well together. In an April 10 report, analyst Jim Friedland of Cohen and Company predicted that the merging of these three companies would not produce a fruitful alliance. Instead of giving Microsoft a needed competitive edge, the merger might actually slow Microsoft's efforts to intensify its battle against Google...
...mistakes nonscientists make whenever they try to take down evolution, asking, for example, how something as complex as a living cell could have possibly arisen whole from the earth's primordial soup. The answer is it couldn't--and it didn't. Organic chemicals needed eons of stirring and slow cooking before they could produce compounds that could begin to lead to a living thing. More dishonestly, Stein employs the common dodge of enumerating all the admittedly unanswered questions in evolutionary theory and using this to refute the whole idea. But all scientific knowledge is built this way. A fishnet...
...school has a total of 1,500 students and only seven slow computers,” says HPSD Co-President Eric A. Meyerowitz...
...legacy of a man who had achieved so much in the confines of that very room in University Hall.A BROAD RESTRUCTURINGDean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith discussed plans for a wide administrative restructuring at the meeting, emphasizing a bigger role for divisional deans and proposing to temporarily slow faculty hiring.The divisional deans would take on increased roles, including control over budgeting, faculty searches, hiring and salaries, and academic and strategic planning.Government professor Stanley Hoffman expressed worry that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences administration might become too bureaucratic like his native France, and that teachers and researchers might...
...hard working, salt of the earth, a core part of our culture.” Perhaps this sentiment, combined with the political clout of farming states like Iowa and the $80 million big agriculture poured into lobbying last year, explains why congressional attempts at reform have been slow in coming, and met with considerable resistance. Just recently, a group representing the American Farm Bureau Federation has been brining in farmers from Iowa to Washington, promising to give policymakers “a dose of in-your-face reality.”The “reality,” however...