Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William D. Fixsen, senior lecturer on molecular and cellular biology, says choosing a baby's sex would enable parents to "weed out genetic diseases" that often target only...
...special testing accommodations to more than 80 percent of those who requested them. If the Bar's clinician had been out to deny the truly disabled their rights, he or she had not been doing a particularly good job. It seems more likely that the clinician was trying to weed out those seeking an excuse for low performance from those with legitimate claims. Now that that discretion will lie with people on the payroll of the applicant, you can be sure that the number of "necessary accommodations" will balloon...
...appreciation is mostly unconscious, as it was when I was a boy wandering by myself in city parks where trees watched over me, or when I walked down sand-and-weed roads in Cape Cod and felt the sea grass brush against my thighs. I never studied nature, and I do not now. The closest I have come to study is to reread the great nature writers--David Quammen, Edward Hoagland, Peter Matthiessen, Annie Dillard and the poet Ted Hughes--and to pick up some sensory information through their wide-open eyes...
...shudder to think of these murderers as human beings, but they do share that distinction with the rest of us. What separates a serial rapist from the man in the office cubicle next to him? Society has tried to weed these people out with tougher prison sentences and sex-offender registry laws, but people are still dying horrible deaths and living brutalized lives. Only those convicted show up on the government's radar screen. The rest go undetected...
...some much advertised union reforms remain cosmetic. Leaders of both unions have embraced "peer review" of teachers, where a new teacher's performance is judged for an entire year by a "consultant teacher." Peer review also seeks to identify and weed out veteran teachers who aren't performing. Feldman calls it "the best kind of teacher evaluation out there," but others call it a sham, designed to give unions even more control over personnel decisions. A handful of districts, taking their cue from the national union leaders, have successfully instituted peer review. But more often, local unions have ignored...