Word: reportable
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...Worse, they insist, grades will turn off the very parents schools need to engage. "Should a single parent who works two jobs and doesn't have much time for school activities get her knuckles rapped?" asks Gary Natriello, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who has studied report cards of all kinds. "It will only make her more likely to hide at home...
...European economy may be a bit sluggish, but just how productive, really, is the U.S. approach? "Half of all Americans report some kind of stress, and 63% say they'd rather have more time off than more money," says Robinson. "We have no identity outside of work, and there's this new glorification of the tech guy who works 18 hours a day. The issue is: How does a corporation reward the people responsible for this economic boom? It's all going to the CEOs through stock options and executive-vacation packages...
...inevitable--an earnest Harvard study. Normally, I'd rather have the Roadrunner drop an anvil on my head than endure another research paper on violence permeating the media--especially one that views with alarm Tigger's playful bowling over of Winnie the Pooh. But as I read the Harvard report, I found that it offers a useful reminder: many popular animated videos contain violence that shouldn't be emulated and scary scenes that young viewers need to have explained to them by adults...
JOURNALIST, HEAL THYSELF! An analysis of 180 newspaper articles and 27 television reports diagnoses health coverage as inadequate. Among the shortcomings: 85% of the stories used statistics that exaggerated a drug's benefit. (A report might say, for example, that an osteoporosis drug can reduce the risk of hip fractures by 50%, but not say that without it fractures occur in only 2 out of 100 people.) More than half the coverage also failed to mention harmful side effects. Omitted too was other important info, like financial ties between researchers and drug companies. Implicit message: quiz those doctors harder...
SMOKING GUM Doctors have known there's a relationship between smoking and gum disease, but until now they haven't known just how strong the link really is. A report on 12,000 adults shows that smoking quadruples the risk of periodontal disease and is responsible for more than half of all cases of severe gum disease. The only bright spot: quitting can bring a smoker's risk down to that of someone who has never lit up--though it may take 10 years...