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...field evolve to where it is today? Increasingly you start to see this hand in hand match of the criminal justice system and the forensic scientist. These professional forensics programs, once they got started, gave a support system for people who really believed this mattered. So they weren't just fringe scientists. Before they were kind of the creepy guys who liked dead bodies, but it grew into a respectable profession. Now, we're fascinated by the science...
...such, laying off teachers is a short-term remedy that will have detrimental implications for the future. Larger classes will decrease the amount of quality and care afforded to students at present, an option that our already-struggling public school system cannot afford to see come to fruition. A decrease in the quality of education now will amplify over the years to result in an unwelcome decrease in the number of citizens capable of contributing and engaging with an increasingly competitive global economy. Moreover, any lessening in the current pool of teaching jobs will further discourage bright, enthusiastic students from...
...could probably increase the number of high school seniors who are ready to go to college - and likely to make it to graduation - if we made the K-12 system more academically rigorous. But let's face it: college isn't for everyone, especially if it takes the form of four years of going to classes on a campus. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...serious set of safety issues, despite all of our good-faith efforts." But he insisted that Toyota has resolved the manufacturing defects responsible for some 2,600 instances of sudden unintended acceleration and 34 deaths since 2000. "We are confident that no problems exist with the electronic throttle-control system in our vehicles," Lentz said in his statement, citing extensive testing of the system's fail-safe mechanisms. But under questioning from Waxman, Lentz conceded he was "not totally" certain that Toyota had fixed the problem. To safeguard against further occurrences, the company said it would install brake-override systems...
...work, calls for political reform and appeals to Muslim religiosity - makes it especially threatening to the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak. Even so, the Brotherhood has been tolerated to varying degrees over the years, the state having found a way to keep its members in check through a system of arbitrary arrests and detentions that rights groups say are illegal under international law. "It's a repeated situation," says Taha Ali, a political analyst at the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, a Cairo NGO. "But this time, we're going to see the parliamentary election in the upcoming...