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...Update. However, the company will not confirm whether or not the patch will be available by January 10, the date of the next scheduled Windows update. "We're investigating the issue aggressively," Mike Reavey, operations manager for Microsoft's Security Response Center, told TIME. Reavey stressed the need to test the safety patch thoroughly before uploading it to users...
...Jones? decision applies only to the Dover case, but the case had been closely watched nationwide since it was the first court test of intelligent design. The Supreme Court has repeatedly banned efforts to remove evolution from the classroom or to introduce Creationism, the idea that life on earth was created directly by God. Critics of evolution had hoped that intelligent design, which is not specific about who or what created life, would survive a court challenge...
...intelligent design school board members in the regular election last month, installing a slate of solidly anti-intelligent design candidates. Those school board members have given conflicting statements as to whether they would allow the case to continue to the appeals courts in hopes of making it a national test case to ban intelligent design from the classroom...
...unit in the biology class. Teachers later refused and the statement was read instead by administrators. Jones said the Dover case was the result of ?the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy.? He derided the school board?s decision as ?breathtaking inanity? and said the resulting ?legal maelstrom? was an ?utter waste of monetary and personal resources.? The judge?s decision clears...
...cloture vote. But the increased pressure now may be exactly what Congress needs to resolve controversy on aspects of the Patriot Act, Burden said. Like many students, Burden said, Congress needs deadlines to get things done. “This week is sort of like the night before the test,” Burden said. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...