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...What They're Missing in the Bay of Bengal: A tiny tropical island has vanished--and we're not talking about the final season of Lost. Long the focus of a dispute between India and Bangladesh, New Moore Island, a 1.4-sq.-mi. speck that once sat several feet above sea level, has been claimed by climate change instead. Regional sea levels have risen dramatically over the past decade...
...changes to American society due to outsourcing, one in particular has recently raised eyebrows: the delegation of paper grading at some colleges to companies that work in India and Malaysia. This particularly worrisome trend received media attention when the practice was adopted in a University of Houston class, and brings up concerns about the quality of contact that students are receiving in large classes...
...this particular case, a company called EduMentry that hires workers in India, Malaysia and Singapore provided a service called Virtual TA, which grades papers for large classes that lack enough teaching assistants. Outsourcing in this manner takes away from the education that students are receiving, as there is considerable value in having teaching assistants who experience the class and then evaluate students accordingly. This allows the graders to take into account dynamics in the course that otherwise would be missed by an international firm. Furthermore, outsourced grading strictly limits the range and scope of the papers being considered. Companies that...
...fact. Many countries participating in the summit have concluded that tightening security measures around their nuclear material is not worth the cost and effort. "There's disagreement over how much physical security is needed," says David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, adding that Russia, India and some European countries have been skeptical of the extent of the danger posed by nuclear terrorism.(See "U.S.-Russia Nuke Treaty: Small Step on a Long Road...
...undulating hills and thick vegetation of Dandakaranya Forest - nearly 50,000 sq km of jungle straddling parts of central-Indian states Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra and the southern state of Andhra Pradesh - have for decades been a forsaken, off-the-map region frequented only by corporate India looking to make a killing from the iron-ore reserves of the land. Indeed, for close to 10 years now, the area has remained off limits for the Indian government and its agencies, including the police and military. It is one of the few pockets of India that has not been topographically surveyed...