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Well, it certainly sounds promising, but I worry about all those traditions being lost. I refer to the spate of online universities that are being planned--cyberspace institutions that will compete with, possibly replace, established schools such as Harvard, Yale and Bob Jones. Skeptical of their efficacy, Stanley Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education, said that higher learning means more than mere mastery of content. "It involves judgment, analysis, synthesis, communication, creativity and innovation," he noted. That may be so, but fortunately such achievements have never been associated with the college experience. My concern is what else will...
...also not saying we're not the ones - let's give the government a puzzle." Although Philippines officials were skeptical of the claims, the group - which has been eclipsed by the larger Moro Islamic Liberation Front, currently in negotiations with the government - has resorted in recent months to a spate of kidnappings in a desperate bid to maintain its relevance...
...traits as aggression, competitiveness and risk taking, things we still think of as male behavior, are linked to the fact that men's bodies produce far more testosterone than women's bodies. His answer--a lot--was offered more as an intuition than a conclusion, but it produced a spate of fang baring among some higher primates in the media and scientific world, since it implies that gender differences owe more to biology than many people would like to believe. Three researchers wrote the Times to complain that Sullivan had overstated their thinking. In the online magazine Slate, columnist Judith...
...using the safer cigarettes because they believe they annoy smokers - who have to relight their butts if they take too much time between drags - and cost more to produce. The anti-tobacco lobby, of course, is cheering the news and predicting that it could open the industry to another spate of lawsuits. But, says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, while the measure could help show that tobacco firms have held out on making cigarettes safer to a certain extent, plaintiffs would have "a serious uphill battle" in proving tobacco companies culpable of deaths caused by untended cigarettes...
HOFFMAN: The past decade has brought a spate of books sounding the death knell for a host of subjects. Francis Fukuyama served up The End of History and David Lindley The End of Physics. But your more sweeping work The End of Science (1997) attracted a lot more attention and controversy--and with good reason. The idea that science may have had its run--that we've discovered all we can realistically expect to discover and that anything we come up with in the future will be pretty much small-bore stuff--left people either intrigued or outraged. With today...