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Congressman Chris Shays (R-Conn.), chairman of the House Government Reform national security subcommittee, has a problem with the part about "known." He calls the vaccine primitive and untested and dubbed the mandatory vaccination program "a gigantic mistake," and his panel has called for the Pentagon to make the shots optional until a better version comes along. But Shays doesn't have anywhere near the votes needed to get the shots stopped. Ask folks around here about Congress riding to my rescue, and they shake their heads and smile...
...source of the problem, some say, is the dearth of minority senior Faculty members...
...some extent, the problem lies with a dearth of Faculty to serve as advisers. The concentrations that consistently receive high marks are generally small, such as folklore and mythology, and close-knit, such as history and literature. The perennial disappointments, such as government and economics, have many more students and a lower student-Faculty ratio, making interaction more difficult. The call by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles for the hiring of additional junior faculty would help alleviate the pressure on large concentrations and enable them to deal more personally with their students...
SLOW START The risk factors that foretell academic trouble for many students begin to take their toll as early as kindergarten, reports a Department of Education study. Children from low-income households headed by parents with little education had poorer number and letter skills, more problem behaviors and more illness. The study suggests intervention in preschool, along with Head Start programs and quality child care...
Such paradoxes pervade the way we think about blame, and few cases have displayed them more clearly than this one. There has been much pondering of whether this child knew what he did was wrong. Well, probably not. But that's often the problem, isn't it--that criminals disagree with society over what is wrong? Shootings often arise out of grievance, a sense of just retribution. And more than a few robbers weave elaborate theories--not always implausible--about why their victims didn't deserve their money in the first place. Should we let these reflective thieves walk...