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Education: Our True Homeland Security
Students use an interactive whiteboard during a class in the Kyrene School District in Tempe, Arizona. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) Today's students see education as a …
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Nine Eleven and the Manufacture of Consent
If, traditionally, war is a hallmark of sovereignty, so it is with war on terror, but in this case it is not an act of sovereignty abroad only, but …
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How the Most Dangerous Game Is Being Played
(Image: RLHyde) There's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. -Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" …
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Relics, Artifacts and Memories: A Year Spent With World Trade Center Steel
Frederic Schwartz, architect of the Westchester and New Jersey 9/11 Memorials, stands in front of “Empty Sky.” Almost 50 percent of the victims’ families have no remains to …
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Bird-Dogging Torturers in NYC
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 nears, many ex-Bush administration officials who approved torture in the “war on terror” and botched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are back …
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Global Groundswell: Mad as Hell
In Israel, a social movement aimed at income inequality and housing prices has sprung up from a youth Facebook protest. Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a trip, hoping to nip the …
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House Conservatives Charter Ideology Over Educational Reality
The House is poised to vote on legislation that would increase federal support for charter schools and would encourage states to authorize new charter schools. The "Empowering Parents through …
After 9/11, Was War the Only Option?
Courtesy: The New York Times Syndicate. This is the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the …
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The Importance of Time Off
I used to be a real productivity nerd. I wrote an earlier post detailing some examples of my compulsion to be as efficient as possible. I worked at a …
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September 11 Lessons: Combating Ignorance, Avoiding Arrogance
US soldiers from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade assist American and Afghan soldiers who were wounded December 12, 2010, near the village of Sangsar, southern Afghanistan. Six American soldiers …