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...Around the world, scientists have found that roads are the single best (but not infallible) predictor of tropical deforestation. In the Brazilian Amazon, roughly 75% of the deforestation that has taken place has occurred within 50 km of a paved road. In the 26 years after the 1965 paving of the slender highway between the Amazon city of Bel?m and Bras?lia, 58% of the forests disappeared in a 100-km swath on either side of the road. The paving of 1,460 km of highway BR-364 between the city of Cuiab? in Mato Grosso and Porto Velho in Rond?nia...
...1990s were a banner decade for book banning - or, more accurately, for attempts to ban books, and if this year is any predictor, the next 10 years won't be any better. The wildly popular "Harry Potter" series sparked myriad complaints; some parents maintain that the books, which follow the path of a young wizard as he learns to use his magic skills, advocate witchcraft. Numerous school districts have considered banning the series from classrooms, but only a few have made good on the threat. According to the American Library Association, more than 5,000 complaints were recorded at school...
...eighth-grade level, mainly because of poor schools and illiterate parents. "We believe that education and the ability to read are the core of anyone's life--their economic life and social enjoyment," says Jim. "Your third-grade reading level is so important. It is the No. 1 early predictor of high school dropout rates." If you can't read, you can't learn social studies, science or history, he notes...
...result was that the College tended to accept high academic achievers whose test scores were a good predictor of their success at the university level. Other colleges followed suit and, by the mid-1960s, most selective academic institutions used the Conant model for their admissions...
...bluntly, has not been the case. Crime rates are virtually the same, and are generally thought to be surprisingly invariant with incarceration rates. Crime has decreased somewhat recently, but this is hardly unexpected due to the economic prosperity of the past decade. Historically, the economy is the strongest predictor of crime rates. Besides, by almost all measures we still have the highest crime rate in the world, so clearly what we are doing isn't working on a more general level...