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- More Tests Please
  Posted by okami
  No Child Left Behind has created the wrong kind of debate about testing. Given the lack of new funding, many states are jiggering their tests to obscure the failure of poorly performing schools and undermining the accountability that was the core goal of the program. Others are attempting to opt out of the program altogether. The process is wasteful, confusing to students, and fails to produce the information that education enterprises badly need to ensure continuous improvement in what they do
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- American Civil Liberties Union : Supreme Court Refuses To Review Warrantless Wiretapping Case
  Posted by okami from ACLU
  The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to review a legal challenge to the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program
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- OPINION FEATURE: American torture past and present
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  Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the language that, when coupled with expanding military and commercial ambitions, had helped launch two very different wars. The
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- Medication Under a Microscope
  Posted by okami from Washington Post
  A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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- Ex-Fla. official facing fed porn charges
  Posted by okami from Yahoo News!
  The former spokesman for Florida's child welfare agency paid two 16-year-old boys for sexually explicit photos of themselves and then brokered the images to overseas pornographers, according to a complaint filed Monday by federal prosecutors.
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- Justice Official Defends Rough CIA Interrogations
  Posted by okami from Washington Post
  The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.
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- No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
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  The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.
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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

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8:12 am 3/15/08

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