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...congressman said yesterday that he will introduce legislation this January requiring colleges and universities to spend at least 5 percent of their endowments each year, a move that follows months of heated debate over the prospect of such a mandate...
...earth “was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time.” According to Bess, Palin said yes to both questions.But should we care? People believe in crazy things. In a 2004 poll, 34 percent of Americans stated that they believed in ghosts and 24 percent in witches. Dennis Kucinich, in the 2007 Democratic debate, stated that he saw a UFO , which makes him a possible interstellar Manchurian Candidate. So why do dinosaurs matter?Dinosaurs matter because to believe that dinosaurs walked with...
...parents' place of birth. The mutual respect that Americans and Indians have for one another should be encouraged and strengthened, especially through robust commerce. According to a 2006 survey by Pew Research Center, Indians remain among the most pro-American people in the world, with 71 percent of Indians holding a favorable view of the United States. But mutual admiration does not change the simple fact that the U.S. and India have different sets of interests. While these sometimes align with global interests, as they have in the war on terror, or just align with each other, as the recent...
...communities of color, with their reckless financial behavior.” According to pamphlets distributed by RAN at the protest, Bank of America’s recent claims of new environmental initiatives are at odds with their track record. RAN reports that the company commits less that 0.2 percent of its assets per year to environmental sustainability, while spending nearly 100 times as much money on “dirty energy.” “Bank of America is guilty of being one of the biggest funders of the coal industry,” said Alysha Suley...
...biased against urban schools. MacDonald said that aggregate scores include the scores of typically under-performing subgroups, including minorities, as well as students who are from low-income families or who do not speak English well. MacDonald added that when the results are broken down by subgroup, 72 percent of the subgroups in Cambridge outperform their counterparts in the state. But the district’s aggregate scores are still low because the student population in Cambridge has a higher proportion of these subgroups, she said. Fowler-Finn and MacDonald stressed the importance of factoring in the difficulty...