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...significant portion [of faculty]—which I would call 25 percent or up—feel alienated at a high-standard university, you have a lack of inspirational leadership,” Damon said...
However, Phyllis and Morton Keller, authors of Making Harvard Modern, highlight schools where faculty have a somewhat greater degree of decision-making power than is standard in a top-down system, including Stanford, where a Faculty Senate has authority in promotion decisions...
...humiliating turn of events for an agency whose approval was once considered the world's gold standard of drug safety, especially after 1960, when it refused to approve thalidomide for use in the U.S. until it had more data and thus spared Americans the birth defects that plagued newborns in Europe and South America. In some ways, the FDA's recent troubles can be traced back to a pair of reforms that were made in the 1990s and hailed at the time as great innovations. Responding to complaints from AIDS activists and the pharmaceutical industry that drug approval was taking...
...emitting sparks drive into the middle of the melee. Instructed to start shooting, Anderson held his fire--and the car turned out to be carrying only a startled family. Afterward, Anderson claims, his sergeants told him, "'Next time, you open fire, just in case.' Basically they have a standard procedure that if you're fired upon, you fire at everybody that's around." Without commenting on specific rules of engagement, a Pentagon spokesman vehemently rejected Anderson's description of the rules...
...does appear that on many, many different human attributes—height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability—there is relatively clear evidence that whatever the difference in means, which can be debated, there is a difference in the standard deviation, and variability of a male and a female population...