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12/31/10 Happy New Year
TechNews for the week: December 29; December 27;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
U.S. troops battle to hand off a valley resistant to Afghan governance ; Commander: US can't seal Afghan-Pakistan border; Army edits history of deadly Wanat battle;
Turmoil in Pakistan as party quits Cabinet;
WikiLeaks: UAE considered keeping Hamas hit quiet; cable dump reveals flaws of State Department's information-sharing tool ;
As frustration grows, airports consider ditching TSA; Cargo that flies over the U.S. doesn't get screened to federal standards;
Obama administration steps up monitoring of banks that miss TARP payments;
Lawmakers seek cash during key votes; Two new rules will give Constitution a starring role in GOP-controlled House;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
Don't spin the Civil War;
Facebook passes Google as most popular site on the Internet;
Finance and Economics
Is there a better way to measure inflation; More to ETFs than meets the eye;
Time Warner Cable customers may lose TV networks; CVS to buy Medicare business of Universal American;
Education:
Educational Gap Opening Up Between US Cities; Professional Science Master's Programs See Sharp Growth In US, Abroad;
Texas Colleges Bracing For Effects Of Budget Shortfall;
Some Schools Moving Physics To Freshman Year To Emphasize Scientific Concepts; More states let students opt out of P.E. classes;
Company Employs "Data Forensics" To Expose Education Cheating;
NCAA needs to stop bending the rules before the system breaks; Fired Maryland coach deserved better from his alma mater;
NCAA basketball's new high-elbow prohibition leaves little room for interpretation ;
12/24/10
TechNews for the week: December 22; December 20;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Top CIA spy in Pakistan pulled amid threats after public accusation; Pakistanis say As drone strikes have increased, so have assassinations;
Maliki's governing style raises questions about future of Iraq's fragile democracy ; Contractors behaving badly mean headaches for US;
Iraq war: former Bush aide admits manipulating opinion;
Obama administration readies order on indefinite detention;
Senate votes to overturn DADT gay policy; Obama signs repeal of 'don't ask, don’t tell';
Senate ratifies nuclear arms treaty with Russia;
The Guardian report: the full allegations against Julian Assange; CIA task force to assess impact of U.S. cables' exposure by WikiLeaks;
TSA scanners, pat-downs particularly vexing for Muslims, other religious groups; Scanner companies' lobby hard amid rancor on TSA use of airport full-body scanners;
Official: Thermos alert an attempt to think ahead;
Census shows GOP-leaning states will gain congressional seats;
Feds shut down Web sites on suspicion of copyright infringement, but have not filed any criminal charges;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
2010 biggest political lies and half-truths; Nine Truths About Business You Won't Learn in School;
The Fourth Amendment doesn’t protect Email as much as You might think;
At Charleston's Secession Ball, divided opinions on the spirit of S.C.;
Lingerie football game concludes with a brawl;
Finance and Economics
Auditors question TSA's use of and spending on technology ;
FCC passes first net neutrality rules; criticism is immediate ; Patent Suits Called Threat to Photo Websites;
'Active financing' exemption for some businesses to cost taxpayers $9 billion; U.S. Cities That Could Face Bankruptcy in 2011;
Education:
Half of Money Lent to Students at For-Profits Will End Up in Default Lifetime Student Loan Default Rates Data;
University Financial Crises: Lessons From Ancient Rome; American Enterprise Institut misrepresents GAO report on the recruiting practices at for-profit colleges.;
IRS Steps Up Scrutiny of Colleges and Other Nonprofit Groups;
Advocacy Group says Most Colleges Restrict Free Speech;
Congress Passes America COMPETES Act; Some Experts Say Perceived US STEM Deficit Is Overblown;
Salaries Surge for Assistant Football Coaches;
Ohio State suspends players for first 5 games of 2011 for receiving improper benefits; ruling ruling leaves many questions;
Source: Mike Leach next FB coach at Maryland;
12/17/10
TechNews for the week: December 17; December 15; December 13;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Blasphemy trials in Pakistan reveal a broken justice system; U.S. struggles to root out militants in Pakistani madrassa;
Nawa turns into proving ground for U.S. strategy in Afghan war ; As U.S. assesses Afghan war, Karzai a question mark;
Review of Afghan war strategy: troop withdrawal on track for July; next big battle: How many troops to withdraw; 'Ratlines' threaten White House Afghan war plans;
WikiLeaks' advocates are wreaking 'hacktivism'; WikiLeaks could be vulnerable to Espionage Act; Air Force Bans Access to Sites with WikiLeaks Data;
U.S. guns tied to Mexico drug violence;
Poll: Most Americans back tax agreement; Congress passes extension of Bush-era tax cuts; Obama signs massive tax bill;
Virginia Judge rules health-care overhaul unconstitutional;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
Free Speech and the Internet; The YouTube Lawsuits: They’re Not Over; Court Says Police Need Warrants to Access E-mail Records;
Republican Senators Seek to Stop Net Neutrality Vote;
Finance and Economics
Payroll tax cut worries Social Security advocates; Medicaid cuts: teeth pulled, transplant called off;
Not having a mortgage won't free you from foreclosure mess; Filing bankruptcy in retirement may not be such a bad idea;
U.S. arrests 4 in insider trading probe centered on hedge fund industry;
Unemployment rate rises in 21 states, falls in 15 in November;
Education:
Report: Higher Education Suffers From Poor Leadership At All Levels;
Innovation Mandate: American Students Score 'C' In Math And Science ;
Survey: Nearly 90% of Young Alumni Say Going to College Was Worth It; Survey: More Public Colleges Are Pessimistic About Tuition Revenue;
22 ways to measure quality — but some of these measures have quality issues of their own; Student Learning: Measure or Perish;
Study: Students Lie on Course Evaluations; How to Read Student Evaluations;
Grading Student Essays or How to Give Constructive Feedback; New Measures of Scholarly Impact ;
Old Debate Over Budgetary Strategy; U. Oregon’s Own State Board Opposes Autonomy Plan; Washington State U. Defies AAUP Chapter With Budget Cuts;
Judge Refuses to Block Academic Reorganization at U. Toledo ; 104 Tenured Faculty Members Take Buyouts at Texas A&M ;
Congress Approves Changes to New GI Bill; Federal Reserve Seeks to Lower ‘Swipe Fees,’ to Benefit of College Bookstores;
Professor quits because He Won't Censor Himself;
Blind Students Demand Access to Online Course Materials; UCLA sued over Streaming of Videos;
WikiLeaks a boon for discussion about ethics as well as how the Internet works;
With Latest NCAA Infractions Case, Arizona State Takes Lead of University with most infractions;
Colorado State Creates New Panel to Admit Athletes otherwise Denied Admission;
Big Ten names new divisions: Leaders and Legends;
12/10/10
TechNews for the week: December 10; December 08; December 06;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Pakistani anti-Taliban militias offer lessons for U.S. in Afghanistan; WikiLeaks cables aren't as threatening as advertised;
WikiLeaks founder arrested on Swedish warrant; Controversy Fuels DoS Attacks, Counterattacks; Analysis: Is Wikileaks' Assange actually a terrorist?;
WikiLeaks armors itself to survive cyberattacks; avoids shutdown as supporters worldwide go on the offensive ;
Wikileaks mirror sites proliferate: a partial index of indexes; WikiLeaks stirs debate on info revolution; WikiLeaks lists sites U.S. says vital to interests;
Senate Republicans block legislation allowing taxes to rise on upper income taxpayers
Angry Democrats rebel against Obama's tax-cut deal with Republicans; Obama offers tax deal: Calls on Clinton to help;
Senate halts repeal of ban on gays serving openly in the military; Senate GOP blocks 9/11 health bill;
Just weeks after 2010 election, Republicans lining up for 2012 Senate races; Incoming GOP freshmen rapidly embracing big-money fundraisers;
CIA files details ties between US and ex-Nazis;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
5 Tips For Encouraging Excellence;
Web Marketers Wary of FTC's 'Do Not Track' Initiative; FTC’s Privacy Proposal Could Impact Online Advertising;
India Seeks Access to BlackBerry Accounts;
Cables Spilled by WikiLeaks Portray College Campuses as Ideological Battlegrounds;
Internet Impacting Jurors’ Impartiality;
Finance and Economics
AOL mulls breakup, then merger with Yahoo;
Huge mistake mars flashy new $100 bills;
FCC's pay-as-you-go Internet plan raises video, access questions;
GOP blocks bill giving Social Security recipients a $250 payment ; Seniors lose out with payment cuts to primary-care doctors;
Education:
6-Year Graduation Rates: a 6-Minute Primer; Poll: Americans Blame Students and Parents for Poor Graduation Rates;
Are Narcissistic Students More Likely to Cheat? Cheating and Academic Integrity: an International Perspective on ‘The Shadow Scholar’;
Tulane President: Leadership in the Face of Hardship ; Today's Students Need Leadership Training Like Never Before;
International Test Data Show U.S. In Middle Of Pack; Report: US Parents Overestimate Children's Math Abilities;
Harvard U. Overhauls Governing Board, a First After 360 Years; New Woe for Lambuth and Fisk Universities: Accreditation Problems;
U. of California Endorses 3-Year Degrees and Online Education; Senate hearings turn gaze to Military Aid to For-Profits Colleges;
British Parliament Approves Sharp Increase in Tuition; Report: One-Third of Universities Risk Closure; Students and Professors take to the street;
With States Still Swimming in Red Ink, Higher-Education Budgets Stay Tight;
Journ(i)e: social networking for schools; 18 Percent of College Students Who Go Online Use Twitter;
U. of Cambridge Web Site Aids Study of Endangered Languages; Photo-Comparison Site Stirs Interest, and Ire, at Boston U.;
College-Sports TV Networks Offer Payouts—and Headaches; Big Ten halts expansion - for now;
Regulating Ohio's youth sports leagues; NCAA May Form Panel on Football Recruiting;
$500K available to OSU athletes in need; While Top Athletes Train, He Handles Logistics; Female Athletes’ Concussion Symptoms Overlooked;
The football facility at Northern Arizona U to marvel at;
12/3/10
TechNews for the week: December 3; December 1; November 29;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
WikiLeaks: Yemeni president covers up US strikes; secret State Department cables exposes U.S. diplomacy; WikiLeaks archive; leaks erode trust;
Comment: WikiLeaks provides the truth Bush obscured; U.S. says foreign ties can withstand leaks; want to charge WikiLeaks founder under Espionage Act;
US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment;
U.S. Expands Role of Diplomatic Spying; Court documents: U.S. repeatedly illegally spied on U.S. citizens; CIA behind U.S. envoys' espionage wishlist;
American exceptionalism: an old idea and a new political battle;
Officials: Afghan border police officer shoots and kills 6 U.S. soldiers;
Pentagon report: Repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' law poses little risk for military;
Deficit panel calls for military cuts, higher retirement age, tax reforms; Deficit plan wins 11 of 18 votes more than expected, but not enough to force action ;
Fed data reveal wide scope of loan action during financial crisis;
For second time Judge Rejects Health Law Challenge; Tax break for employer health plans a target again;
Anti-earmark Tea Party Caucus takes $1 billion in earmarks;
House passes bill to extend middle-class tax cuts but not those for wealthy;
Nigeria to Charge Former VP Cheney in Bribery Case;
RNC convention spending alarms party veterans;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
10 Secrets from the CIA for business; Media Matters, the watchdog group that loves to hate Fox News;
Neat Receipt Scanner - An essential tool for the cluttered student;
Comcast, Level 3, Network Neutrality, and your Internet; FTC Endorses “Do Not Track” Privacy Plan Online; Republicans cool to plan;
U.S. Government Seizes 82 Websites: A Glimpse at the Draconian Future of Copyright Enforcement?;
Finance and Economics
Debt crisis escalates in Europe; fears grow about Spain;
Unemployment checks to 2 million will stop without Congressional action;
Education:
Number Of US Research Doctorates Up Slightly; U.S. Universities See Decline in Foreigners Earning Science Doctorates;
Half of All First-Time Students Earn Credentials Within 6 Years; Thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms;
As State Budgets Shrink, College Advocates Seek Regulatory Relief; SUNY May Scale Back Top Legislative Priority and Seek Only Limited Autonomy From State;
Open records program at odds with A&M System rule; Professors, Universities Disagree Over Policies For Walking Out Of Unruly Classes;
Virginia Commonwealth U. President Rescinds Confidentiality Agreement for Staff;
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal on Student Paper Ads; Criminal Trial of Former Dean Could Be a Preview of Fraud Case Against Kaplan;
Iowa Republicans Find a Tempting Budget Target: Faculty Sabbaticals;
Mathematicians Protest Waiver of Doctoral Exam by U. of Manitoba;
High school students and technology; Using Twitter to Capture Students Thoughts and Ideas;
New Social Software Tries to Make Studying Feel Like Facebook; University Measures Extent of Texting in Class;
Blackboard patent invalidated, drops lawsuit;
TCU Joins the Big East, the Conference Shuffle Continues; Pac 10 Faces Both Revenue and Expense Pressure;
Economist Challenges Bowl Championship Series;
Stadium Skyboxes and Dorm Rooms to Be Featured in the Same Building ; U Akron has a New, Empty Stadium;