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Diamond said many people have tried to explain this diversification phenomenon in racial terms, saying that Africans were simply lazier than Europeans and did not have the energy to migrate. His discoveries have shed new light on this situation, though, showing those ideas to be incorrect...
...term "reading period," then, would seem to be merely a misnomer. But quibbling about an incorrect label only serves to draw our attention away from the deeper problems that exist. The biggest of these is that, as students, we are paying over $30,000 a year to attend a university whose professors basically call it quits two weeks early...
...University, Grogan says, is plagued by a public image both "incorrect and unfavorable"--that it is so wealthy it can do whatever it wants whenever it wants; that it remains totally uninvolved in the local community...
There was a 20-minute penalty for each incorrect solution submitted...
...blows there from the land. No. It's the waves... Piaget recognized that five-year-old Julia's beliefs, while not correct by any adult criterion, are not "incorrect" either. They are entirely sensible and coherent within the framework of the child's way of knowing. Classifying them as "true" or "false" misses the point and shows a lack of respect for the child. What Piaget was after was a theory that could find in the wind dialogue coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young...