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...which renders the press release touting a "revolutionary scientific find that will change everything" absolutely true - as long as by "everything," you mean "whether the branch of the primate family that includes monkeys, apes and humans comes from the suborder strepsirrhinae or the suborder haplorrhinae," according to the PLoS One paper. And by "change," you mean "adds information that may or may not help settle the question, but whose implications won't be known for a long time in any case...
This legacy is precisely why we find President Obama’s recent decision to block the release of more detainee abuse photographs—which span a total of five years’ worth of images and depict a series of extreme interrogation techniques classified as torture, including waterboarding—to be extremely disappointing. Last month, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that the Obama administration planned to release the photographs, citing a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. But, on May 13, the administration changed its mind. The White House?...
...Obama administration attempts to justify its new stance with an appeal to national security: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates argued that the release of the photographs would stir up trouble in Afghanistan and Iraq and lead to an increase in American casualties in both theaters. We find the connection between the release of photographs and the security of our troops dubious and are more concerned that Gates’s appeal to vague threats to “national security” is a return to the policies of the past...
...Bush administration’s refusal to be honest about what happened at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib not only hurt its credibility at home but also inspired much hatred, indignity, and anti-Americanism abroad. If the Obama administration follows in its footsteps, it will only find itself complicit in the opaque policies of the Bush...
...think about why I am here, I somehow find myself returning to the ideas of value and values. Perhaps what is important about education is, first, to develop and articulate for myself a set of values—whether about social justice or civic participation, art or scholarship—and, second, to learn to produce objects that I believe have value in themselves. The first could be called the ethical and aesthetic side of the word “value,” and the second could be called the productive or material side...