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The Heart of the Problem
Catrin Nye, of the BBC Asian Network, has an interesting background piece on the Internet on today’s BBC News site. In concerns a study by an independent research group, Demos, that tried to assess the level of trust that current students in the...
Throw Another Mouse on the Barbie!
As a result of spending more time reading the news dispatches on the BBC News Web site, I am beginning to believe that the British either have much stricter rules of acceptable grammatical structure (which I do not know) or are far less sensitive to...
Our Global Constitution
As the debate continues over how to deal with social software where social unrest is concerned, I was struck by the following text in a report on today’s BBC News Web site: BlackBerry has offered to co-operate with police investigating the riots –...
Writing Assignments Boost Critical Thinking Skills for Landscape Design Students
Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden is preparing students in her horticulture classes for challenging careers by boosting their critical thinking capacity. “Horticulture graduates entering the field of landscape design and installation must be able to integrate...
Toxic Kool-Aid for a Thirsty Country
The cover of the Insight section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle trumpet’s the question: Who will create the jobs of the future? This was the common theme for the first five opinion pieces. I have no idea how the Chronicle decided to...
