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Mothering at Mid-Career: Discipline and Praise
Back in the days when my peers and I were having our children, I remember hearing that one friend didn’t...
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I Hate Bucky Dent
Todd Diacon wonders what today's students -- behind their closed doors -- don't know about their dormmates and how that lack of interaction is changing the nature of the college experience.
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Ask the Administrator: Breaking Into Bio
A new correspondent writes: I just graduated with my masters in Biology and started to look at jobs in the...
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Planning for Contraction
Timothy Burke looks at the changing economic landscape for higher education -- and sees a coming period of relative austerity.
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In Which I Admit to Being Really Confused
Okay, so we're running a huge national debt, financed largely by borrowing from other countries. As I understand it, the...
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You, the jury
It you live in the USA or Canada, there's an election going on in your life. I'm not going to...
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... a giant leap for America.
Yesterday, the N.Y. Mercantile started auctioning mandatory carbon allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. They're mandatory, that is, if...
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Breaking the Code
It isn't as spiffy as the homeland security threat level system, but David Galef tries to explain the latest revision of U of All People's course coding system.