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...Dosing cups and droppers aren't perfect answers for either adults or kids because level markers are not always clearly visible. Dreyer believes pictograms on packages can improve accuracy, showing just what 5 ml or any other proper quantity looks like in a cup or a syringe. One thing almost no one recommends is adding warnings to packages explicitly advising consumers against using spoons. "If at some time the dosing cap is missing, they may just instead drink off the bottle," says Duke University's Ruth Day. "That's the absolute worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spoonful of Medicine: Too Often the Wrong Dose | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...official. But spies are, by nature, paranoid, and there will be suspicion now that any new and even some trusted sources are "dangles"--that is, double agents working for al-Qaeda. This could cripple future operations. "People tend to get very cautious in a hurry when this sort of thing happens," says Bob Baer, a former covert operator. "Remember, [James] Angleton tore the place apart looking for Soviet moles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA Double Cross: How Bad a Blow in Afghanistan? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...remember when I was younger, he took my 'Thriller' album that I had just gotten and said, 'I need this thing! I need to understand this Michael Jackson person,'" Elisabeth recalled. "After listening to the album three times, he came down from the attic and joked, 'I don't understand why Michael Jackson is such a big deal...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eminent Byzantinist Dies, Leaves Legacy of Open-Minded Scholarship | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...right thing with regard to resigning,” said Paul R. Nowicki, who came in second to Galluccio in the 2007 race but told the Crimson he would not run for the seat again...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senate Hopefuls Eye Galluccio's Vacant Seat | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

Then there are other kinds of data that I mention in the article - things like the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the Collegiate Learning Assessment. NSSE [pronounced Nessie] is a measure of teaching quality and student learning. The Collegiate Learning Assessment is a test of critical thinking, analytic reasoning and communication skills that is content nonspecific. You can give it to an engineering major and you can give it to an English major and learn the same thing. Hundreds of colleges and universities administer these surveys and tests to their students, but most of them don't publish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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