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...were to follow the animal-rights ethic to the letter, it would be a disaster. It would lead to species extinction." Where the activists may have a point, he says, concerns conditions at 1,400 roadside menageries, traveling shows and petting zoos around the country, many of which are substandard and, rightly, ought to be shuttered...
...highs, staff numbers are being cut. Why don't hospital administrators hire enough staff to provide patients with better, safer care? Money is the answer. Maintaining or increasing current nonphysician staff levels cuts into the bottom line, reducing profits for both the hospitals and doctors. When doctors whine about substandard patient care, they're refusing to recognize that hospitals are understaffed. GEORGE M. DAVIS Fuquay-Varina...
...knowledge or skill sets, the observed deficiencies in their baseline ability are reflective of failures in a separate domain, namely that of secondary education. Because America’s high schools are where basic reading, writing, and quantitative skills should be taught, they are also where the accountability for substandard performance in basic skills should lie; illiterate and innumerate students should not be receiving diplomas or making their way to college in the first place. Remarks made earlier this month by the Commission’s chairman Charles Miller suggest that he is now backing away from his earlier call...
...Friends tell Sarah Tomasetti that only six or seven years ago they could shop around for quality child care. Now, she says, "if you're offered a place anywhere, you consider it." The risk of too little choice is that substandard care "becomes something you can't afford to see," says Margaret Sims, associate professor in community studies at Edith Cowan University. So how can parents spot it? Look at the developmental programs, activities and menus on offer, she says. And if carers are reluctant to let you watch them interacting with children, leave...
...breakup of the tanker Braer near Britain's Shetland Islands did a lot less damage than one might expect from 26 million gal. of escaped crude oil. But after another major spill near the Strait of Malacca, off Sumatra, Britain's Transport Secretary concluded that the number of substandard tankers on the seas was an ''international disgrace.'' A Shell International Petroleum report claimed that 20% of the world's fleet was unfit for duty...