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...work. Medical studies have consistently shown that abstinence for alcoholics can lead to improved health and a longer life-span. But those findings don't address the crux of the matter: Are all problem drinkers alcoholics? Related to that is another question: Are problem drinkers more likely to fail at moderation or abstinence...
...homework teaches kids to manage time, organize and learn on their own. And there is some statistical evidence that, at least in junior high and high school, homework improves academic achievement. But, argue authors John Buell and Etta Kralovec in The End of Homework, "both research and historical experience fail to demonstrate the necessity or efficacy of ever longer hours of homework." Kralovec, an educational researcher and former teacher, and Buell, a political scientist, note that not a single study conclusively establishes homework's advantages. And, says Kralovec, think about the trade-offs--"all that time you didn't spend...
...premise is that it is not just money that makes a nonprofit foundation succeed or fail; it is also talent, expertise and creative ideas--the same attributes that make a profitable business. This is the sort of thinking that is "breathing fresh air into the whole world of philanthropy," says Lester Saloman, director of Johns Hopkins Center of Civil Society Studies. The venture-capital community--especially blue-chip firms like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has funded Google and Amazon.com among others--believes it has honed its skills at picking winners to a point where it can apply them...
...appeals fail at the state level, the federal appeals system beckons. Optimists see a conclusion in a "few years...
...they thought. (Somebody does read them, and the squeaky wheels are apparently getting the greasing.) The saddest part came at the end, when, after two months of taunting us with threats of expulsion for our weaknesses, the drill sergeants finally had to admit that hardly anybody was going to fail after...