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...yesterday’s meeting of the full Faculty, professors broadly supported replacing the Core Curriculum with a system of distributional requirements, though they did not a reach a consensus on what those requirements should look like.The General Education Committee formally presented its report to professors at the meeting, with Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel introducing the committee’s recommendation that students should be required to take three courses in each of three distribution areas—the Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, and the Study of Societies.In the report, the committee also proposed...
...core of France’s lacking economic performance are a high tax burden, a large public service sector, and a rigid economy that is held down by powerful unions and restrictive legislation. Together, the distorted incentives produced by such a system account for the fact that the total number of work hours is only one half of what it would have been if all working-age French were employed. In contrast the labor supply ratio in the U.S. is 20 percent higher, indicating the sharp advantage the American economy has when it comes to its worker productivity...
...core of American immigrants’ success is a free market economy, which values productivity, innovation, and fair competition. In contrast, the same forces that hurt the French economy today also hurt the most vulnerable of its citizens—the immigrants, who are excluded economically, socially, and politically. President Chirac’s plans to expand public spending and create even more rigidities in an attempt to help the disenfranchised are likely to backfire. Ultimately, it is a free and prosperous economy that creates jobs for those needing them most; the best thing the French government...
...Goodarz Danaei, a HSPH graduate student who collaborated in the data analysis and writing of the report, described the data collection as a mass collaborative effort on the part of over 100 researchers worldwide belonging to a larger, ongoing project called the Comparative Risk Assessment group, with a core group of five HSPH researchers. The analysts collected the independent studies of researchers focusing on a specific risk factor in a region, such as tobacco in South East Asia, he said. The researchers then calculated correlations between risk factors, the apparent harmfulness of those factors, and the prevalence of certain types...
Within each school, confessions abound. Hard-core Attachmentites reveal they caved in to the pacifier (recently endorsed by the American Association of Pediatrics as a preventive for SIDS). Ferber followers beg one another's permission to pick up a weeping infant for just five minutes. Even Ferber admits, "Parents have always modified my program, and that's fine." Which makes me feel better about my own cheating (I added white noise and swaddled past the deadline). The truth is, even when parents stick with a program, most of them skip some rules and customize others. Standardized steps may sell books...