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...that 10 years earlier would have rallied black leadership against the company. Many of those opposing Wal-Mart in Chicago were black, but the presence of an equal--or greater--number of black supporters took the subject of race off the table. To the extent that it was a topic, race worked to Wal-Mart's favor in that it was used as a club to batter the unions...
...African politicos, meanwhile, gave speeches so uninspired, tedious, and off-topic that they visibly embarrassed many of the expat participants. “The Special Advisor to the Honourable Minister of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City,” whose title was announced in full ad nauseum, gave a speech that embodied the tenor. The only time this man lit up was a one-paragraph run (out of what must have been a 50-page speech) where he named some of Ghana’s many problems, hinting that blacks in the diaspora could help out a little...
...surface, the President's position seems supremely fair-minded: What could possibly be wrong with presenting more than one point of view on a topic that divides so many Americans? But to biologists, it smacks of faith-based science. And that is provocative not only because it rekindles a turf battle that goes all the way back to the Middle Ages but also because it comes at a time when U.S. science is perceived as being under fresh assault politically and competitively. Just last week, developments ranging from flaws in the space program to South Korea's rapid advances...
...mention of evolution in their curriculum standards. Now only Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi and Oklahoma--states with long creationist traditions--make this omission. In June, Alaska's state board of education was pressured by scientists, teachers and concerned citizens to add evolution to science standards that had avoided the topic. Other states, most notably Kansas and New Mexico, have wobbled on whether to teach evolution, deleting and then restoring it to state standards depending on who was elected to the school board. The Kansas reinstatement occurred after the state was given an F- in a 2000 report by the Fordham Foundation...
Semmelweis doctors went to Capitol Hill in May to lobby Congress to codify such principles. But they haven't managed to get even a hearing on the topic. Most reform advocates say it would be better for doctors to adopt new standards on their own. "Doctors already feel beleaguered" by regulation, says Wachter. More rules imposed by outsiders would be seen as "intrusion...