Two methods the federal government wants to use to find terrorists -- "data mining" and "behavior detection" -- are dubious scientifically and have "enormous potential" for infringing on law-abiding Americans' privacy, a consortium of scientists said.
Or something close to it. Some are calling on the Pentagon to build a quick-strike, non-nuclear weapon that can attack targets anywhere on the planet
A high-profile push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor's degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind target
Short-term exposure to smog, or ozone, is clearly linked to premature
deaths that should be taken into account when measuring the health
benefits of reducing air pollution
Explorer Dennis Schmitt found an island nearly two years ago near Greenland.
Flooded roads and subways, deformed railroad tracks and weakened
bridges may be the wave of the future with continuing global warming
The American Association for the Advancement of Science calls it a crisis. Atmospheric scientist Timothy L. Killeen, the president of the American Geophysical Union, says it "could harm our ability to protect our citizens." We call it plain old scary.
THE BOILING DEBATE over the economics of immigration may give you an eerie sense of déjà vu, and no wonder: Its superheated rhetoric recalls the polarized and exaggerated arguments over open trade ...
The boiling debate over the economics of immigration may give you an eerie sense of déjà vu, and no wonder: Its superheated rhetoric recalls the polarized and exaggerated arguments over open trade and globalization in the 1990s.
What if the next time it snowed your pockets filled with cash? What if a broker could buy a sunny day--and sell short a dreaded winter? Well, it's happening. Over the past few years the weather-der...
Fortune: KEEPING UPupdated: Mon Jan 13 1997 00:01:00
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Money Magazine: HOW WE RANK THE COLLEGESupdated: Tue Sep 05 1995 00:01:00
WHILE OTHER PUBLICATIONS SIMPLY ATTEMPT TO TELL you which colleges are the strongest academically, we set out to identify the 100 best college buys--the schools that deliver the highest-quality edu...
While other publications simply attempt to tell you which colleges are the strongest academically, we set out to identify the 100 best college buys -- the schools that deliver the highest-quality e...
If Hollywood gave an Oscar for economics, the person who figured out how to measure productivity more accurately would be a sure winner. It's a tough role -- no one really knows what the new econom...
The cost of college has long been a major concern of American parents, but never more so than today. The average bill for a year at a state school was $5,248 in the 1990-91 academic year; the priva...
We recently had a long, argumentative, and ultimately fruitless chat about GATB (pronounced gat-be) with Roberts T. Jones, assistant secretary of labor for employment and training. As Keeping Up re...
By way of elaborating the headline, we begin obliquely with the saga of Kateri Tekakwitha. A Mohawk Indian maiden born in 1656, Kateri was exposed to Christian doctrine by Jesuit missionaries and b...
Clear your mind for a moment of all the notions you've ever held about blacks, whites and racial discrimination. Now take a look at these stark statistics: -- A black household with an annual incom...
Among the more dispiriting events of recent weeks was the publication of Fairness in Employment Testing, a highly depraved document produced by the highly prestigious National Research Council. (Th...
As everybody knows, men and women tend to hold different kinds of jobs. We increasingly view the existence of these differences as a major social problem, and we take for granted affirmative-action...
Why are newspapers of every coloration sounding off these days on the 55- mile-per-hour speed limit and the lives it is allegedly saving? Well, it seems that a panel of scholars assembled by the Na...
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