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5/28/10
TechNews for the week: May 28; May 26; May 24;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Afghan effort tied to success in Kandahar; Insurgents attack NATO's southern Afghan base;
Army investigating deaths that may hurt U.S. efforts in Kandahar; Kandahar governor faced allegations in job with U.S. contractor ;
VP says U.S. withdrawal from Iraq will be on time; Guantanamo review few detainee had significant roles;
Dodd's quest ends with financial overhaul; Perks unchecked for some Wall Street CEOs;
Oil-leak gush hits record levels; Gulf slick invading fragile coastal bays;
Mass. leaders: No "Plan B" if sales tax cut passes;
Health-care law faces test as regulators settle which plans must do what;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
IBM Platform Promises Easy Predictive Modeling;
First look: H.264 and VP8 Compared;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Copyright issues
First Amendment, Free Speech
Other News
Study: H-1B Workers Earn More Than U.S. Workers; Management: Coaching from the NBA;
Babbage's Difference Engine and other historic computers;
Martin Gardner dies at age 95;
Education:
Report: Men's Share of College Enrollments Will Continue to Dwindle;
Rankings of Best Law schools; List offers Ten Most Profitable Majors; Students Still Like Printed Textbooks;
Texas State Board of Education approves new curriculum standards sparking debate on slavery, politics;
100,000 teachers nationwide face layoffs; States take aim at insurance coverage provided by colleges;
Wyoming College Blocks Newspaper Article about president claiming violation of FERPA; restraining order lifted;
Florida's Public Colleges Worry About Building Projects as Budget Deadline Looms; Pennsylvania Court Rules Against University Foundation in Open-Records Case;
Kaplan College Apologizes After Instructor Cites Ban on Spanish in Class; A Mess at Michigan over academic misconduct and fraud;
Athletics Conferences Flex Muscles to Avert Membership Defections;
NCAA Singles Out Ineligible 'Nontraditional' High School Courses; Favorite BYU Correspondence Courses; The downside of Summer School for athletics;
U. of Michigan Punishes Itself for Football Violations; U. Kansas admits $1 million ticket scandal;
Kentucky's basketball team GPA rises, but it's nothing to brag about; UConn basketball assistants resign day before update on NCAA investigation;
5/21/10
TechNews for the week: May 21; May 19; May 17;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Recount in Iraq Preserves Victory for Maliki Rival; War of persuasion: The modern U.S. officer emerges in Afghanistan;
Many Homeland Security initiatives are called flops; U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts;
Heavy oil reaches Louisiana marshland; tar balls in Key West; Oil gushing faster than thought; 19 percent of Gulf fishing shut down;
Oil spill imperils an unseen world at the bottom of the gulf; Oil's sway in Gulf states tempering politicians' response to spill; How BP Secretly Buys PR;
Senate approves historic overhaul of financial regulation; Stocks plunge at closing;
Provision benefiting banks to remain in financial overhaul bill; Senate amendment to financial regulation bill prevents presidential appointments to watchdog agencies;
The euro may keep falling even if debt crisis subsides; China increases holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds;
Health-care reform's next test; Health Insurance Companies Work to Shape new Rules;
Building Is Booming in a City of Empty Houses;
Supreme Court: Sexually dangerous can be kept in prison after prison term is complete and juveniles may not be sentenced to life imprisonment unless guilty of homicide;
GOP derailes American COMPETES Act for second time;
The Messy Fact of Illegal Immigration;
Senate Special Committee: Ways to Fix Social Security;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
Force your browser to always start in private mode;
Scientists Create ‘Artificial Life’;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Patent issues
Trademark, domain names
Privacy issues
Other News
7 Steps to Living Debt Free; Five ways to keep users from stealing corporate data; 15 Ways to Predict Divorce;
Texas man faked way into Army;
Conference on origins of portolan charts;
Education:
GRE Getting An Overhaul; Wait lists shield colleges but unsettle students; Correlation between a child's academic achievement and the number of books parents own;
Opinion: The Real Value of College; The Military Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity;
The Ups and Downs of the Endowment Roller Coaster; Report: Wealthy University Endowments Helped Fuel Financial Crisis;
Historians Want Texas Standards Reconsidered; Texas school board hears from critics of social studies changes;
Professor at LSU Flunked Because of Her Grades;
Arizona and Oregon Approve Measures That Will Benefit Higher Education; Error Threatens Kansas Higher-Education Budget;
Middle States Accrediating Agency faces internal confusion over federal compliance;
Louisiana's Higher-Education Commissioner Gets Major Payday for One-Day Retirement;
Unsustainable Sports Subsidies;
Psychologist disciplined after showing colleague article about Bat Sex; colleague is expert nutritionist;
5/14/10
TechNews for the week: May 14; May 12; May 10;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Afghan Taliban Endgame Talks Set for Karzai's U.S. Visit; U.S. drawdown comes at time of high risk in Iraq; Deadly attacks sweep Iraq;
Pentagon: Troop pay raises too generous; Gates vows to shrink Pentagon bureaucracy;
Attorney general says Pakistani Taliban behind attempted Times Square car bombing; connection to Times Square bomb attempt still not found;
What went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico; Deep-sea ice crystals stymie Gulf oil leak fix; Oil spill gushes on amid technical problems;
In Senate testimony, oil executives pass the blame for massive gulf spill; BP facing a wave of pressure, but not from its balance sheet;
Regulators conduct forensics on market's fast plunge; SEC asks exchanges to devise new trading rules; Fixing Wall Street: 6 simple steps;
Turmoil at the RNC continues as finance chief, deputy resign;
Is the GOP coming unglued?
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
Zombie Satellite Causes Astronomical Buzz; Outer-Space Mysteries Capture the Web;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Copyright issues
Patent issues
Homeland Security
Other News
Mathematical Model of Cow Behavior;
One in four U.S. homes ditch landlines;
Education:
Experts say Too Many Students May Be Going To College;
The Attrition Tradition in Higher Education; More US Students Requiring College Remedial Education;
Turning Science Education Upside Down; Would You Like Credit With That Internship?
U. of California Considers Online Classes, or Even Degrees; Using Creative Commons Licensed Material in Your Classroom; The Incredible Shrinking CIO;
IRS Finds Possible Problems With How Colleges Set Salaries and Report Business Income;
State Senator Requests Audit of U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Issue His Son Fought;
Colorado funding: Huge Problem, Problematic 'Solution'; Furloughs in New York State; Georgia College Students To See Tuition Hikes Of Up To 16%;
U. of Oregon's $1.6-Billion Proposal: an Endowment Instead of Annual Appropriations;
Should Conference alignments start over? Colleges adding football in the next 3 years;
5/7/10
TechNews for the week: May 7; May 5; May 3;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Afghan president to push for peace deals with rebels; Bring the troops home, start the parade; Too few Afghans ready to take over in Taliban strongholds;
Israel's stance on nuclear arms complicates efforts against Iran;
Republicans and Democrats to Lieberman: It's unconstitutional to strip accused terrorists of their citizenship;
Massive dome lowered site of huge US oil spill; Through oil-fouled water, big government looks better and better;
Officials' forecast grim about massive oil spill; Va. officials reconsider support for offshore drilling;
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study; Government Regulator Downplayed Environmental Impact Of Spill;
Panel: U.S. facing 'grievous harm' from chemicals in air, food, water;
Greece secures bailout from Europe and IMF; Investors look at Greece, see a death spiral in Spain and beyond ;
Spanish P.M. forced to defend nation's solvency; New doubts about Greek aid emerge;
U.S. stocks plunge in wild day on Wall Street; Computer glitch blamed for selloff; Authorities investigating wild market swing;
Lobbyists fret over legislation to reshape financial system; Derivatives-spinoff proposal opposed as part of overhaul bill;
N.Y. plot brings politics of terrorism to the forefront; Times Square failed attack focusing on Pakistani Taliban;
Supreme Court to close front doors for security reasons;
5 Myths about immigration;
Health Insurance 18 states refuse to run insurance pools for those with preexisting conditions;
Jobs up 290,000; jobless rate rises to 9.9 pct.;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
Microsoft puts All Its IE9 Video Codec Eggs in the H.264 Basket;
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FCC details plan to reassert authority over Internet;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Copyright issues
Patent issues
Homeland Security
Other News
Employees Know Too Much;
Education:
Some colleges are opting out of U.S. News & World Report's survey; U. of Arkansas Cuts Core Curriculum, Eliminating Foreign-Language Requirement;
Report: U.S. Military Academies Have Room for Improvement;
Want Students to Take an Optional Test? Wave 25 Bucks at Them; Online Evaluations Show Same Results, Lower Response Rate;
Default Rates for Student Loans Continue Steady Climb;
Scrutiny for Colleges' Business Practices; Senator Questions Another Break for Colleges: Tax-Exempt Bonds;
AERA Resolves to Avoid Arizona in Response to Immigration Law; Mexican Universities Suspend Exchange Programs With Arizona;
Arizonia State to eliminate some colleges and 98 jobs; Connecticut Board set up policy for secret firing;
Audit Faults N.D. Universities Over Presidents' Houses and Other Costly Projects;
18 Web 2.0 Tools for Instruction; U Calif - Davis Drops Gmail, Cites Privacy Concerns;
MIT encourages Well-educated guessing; Changing our attitudes towards science ed; FBI begin to look at science departments;
Justice Department Probes NCAA Scholarship Rules; Should the NBA Subsidize College Hoops?
Athletic prorities at Oregon; Big Ten planning to expand, which might set off a domino effect for other conferences;
Knight Commission co-chair backs big salary for SMU football coach;