Word: zeroed
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...tapes are one more vivid manifestation of the military's greater problem: a seeming inability to police itself. In spite of leaders' repeated "zero tolerance" pronouncements--concerning political extremism, racism, sexual harassment and hazing--authorities are just as often forced to acknowledge a breakdown in the chain of command. Last week a sixth soldier at Maryland's Aberdeen training ground was brought up on charges of sexually harassing a trainee, while the Citadel, a military-training school, is in the midst of its own hazing scandal involving female cadets. Blood pinning cannot be written off as the overexcitement of young...
...military--and many military-training schools--has disciplined personnel for hazing. As Shalikashvili put it last week, "We are always going to try to fix human behavior, but we are not always going to have 100% success." But if the leadership does not put teeth into its zero-tolerance policy, "the few and the proud" will have little to be proud...
Shaw said affirmative action programs can be both positive and negative, and that the difference lies in their implementation. He described society as a "zero-sum game" and asserted that there is a large degree of competition between blacks and poor whites for jobs in a troubled economy...
Psychiatrists and educators have long recognized the value of early experience. But their observations have until now been largely anecdotal. What's so exciting, says Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit organization devoted to highlighting the importance of the first three years of life, is that modern neuroscience is providing the hard, quantifiable evidence that was missing earlier. "Because you can see the results under a microscope or in a PET scan," he observes, "it's become that much more convincing...
...Vermont someone from the state's Success by Six program first visits a home within two weeks of a baby's birth. "That gets us in the door at age zero instead of age five, so we can assess what families need," Governor Howard Dean points out. Visits may continue for up to three years. "It is so inexpensive," says Dean, "to take care of children relative to the other things we do, such as build jails and put up expensive social-service networks for runaway youth...