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Should you be allowed into college if you don't read well enough to understand your local paper? What if you can't reliably write a complete sentence? It may seem obvious that students lacking such basic skills could barely survive high school, much less college, but even students who have trouble reading routinely get into college. In fact, more than 600,000 of the freshmen who arrived at U.S. colleges this fall--remarkably, 29% of the total--are taking at least one remedial reading, writing or math class. Taxpayers spend approximately $1 billion a year on the classes...
...basic legal premise that one is innocent until proved guilty seems to be ignored by the Wilmington, Del., police who are detaining innocent people on the street in high-crime areas and taking their pictures to file in a database [LAW, Sept. 23]. While police have the right to take photographs in a public place, they are on a slippery slope when it comes to searching and detention. It seems that being African American makes one a police target. And if the only cause for a search is being black, doesn't that mean any contraband found would be viewed...
...outs or pawns in the plot; rather they are composites of real people that we meet everyday. It is clear that throughout his life Anderson has been an astute observer of human behavior. Consequently, one of the most special things about his films is how they tap into our basic desires, fears and needs and explore how we are all more connected than we think...
Hudson sifted through contract language that he called "virtually incomprehensible" and found "two basic structural flaws" that were "wholly inconsistent with normally accepted standards of banking conduct." Hudson calculated that Citibank, as a result, was paid more than twice as much in interest and fees as it would have received under its initial proposal to Trintomar: a total of $21.1 million in fees and interest on a loan of, effectively, $61.5 million...
...problem is that there is an overemphasis on learning basic skills instead of creative thinking," says Jack Bookman, associate professor of the practice of mathematics at Duke University. This doesn't mean that learning multiplication, subtraction and addition isn't important or that software can't help with drilling, but such skills are best honed after kids have learned the underlying concepts for these operations...