Word: persons
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...problems with a half-time assistant is they tend to be people en route to someone else. They are constantly leaving," Vendler says. "Then you have to train a new one. You can count on a full time person as being at least quasi-permanent...
...cost of this warehousing operation is high: an average of $30,000 per person, per year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Additionally, rising prison expenditures have almost exactly paralleled decreases in expenditures on education. In 1980, federal spending on education totaled $27 billion while federal spending on prisons totaled $8 billion. By 1995, Federal spending on education had fallen to $16 billion, while prison spending had increased to $20 billion. Prison construction now exceeds college construction nationwide...
...could argue that Mr. Chu is a dislikable person, but not indicative of the Asian community in general. Unfortunately, Asians are rarely represented in the media at all. Therefore, when Asians do appear, the fact that they are Asian assumes a disproportionate importance. Whatever qualities they are assigned tend to be projected onto the race as a whole...
...physical and intellectual characteristics of his protagonist. He is short, loves math and takes pride in frequently wearing quadratic reasoning T-shirts. Creating the strip is perhaps his way of poking fun at himself. Indeed, his acquaintances may think the strip is funny, because they know the real person on which it is based. One wonders if a cartoon strip that runs in Harvard's daily is the best medium to air inside jokes that play on offensive racial stereotypes...
...distance education by skeptical faculty. In 1998, 1,680 institutions enrolled 1.6 million students in 54,000 distance courses, and an ever increasing proportion are online. To refer to this burgeoning phenomenon as naive and as counterfeit education or to declare that it is not as good as in-person education implies that what occurs in classrooms is the model to be emulated. This attitude prompts me to ask, Who is naive about how a digitized society will access learning? MICHAEL BEAUDOIN Professor of Education University of New England Portland, Maine...