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12/30/04 Many "moral values" aficionados (including David Brooks of NYT,
who wrote the most unfortunate "The New
Red-Diaper Babies" article on 12/7/04) claim that the Blue states are crime-ridden, and the Red ones are
not. So here are the actual FBI crime statistics for 2003. What
do you think?
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here to see the plots)
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12/30/04 The Geneva Conventions are a key
moral value, or are they?
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here to read the article)
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12/26/04 Top US TV Network stories in 2004
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here to see the plot)
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12/26/04
..."So what is the common denominator of all these
news stories? Wait, wait, don't tell me. I want to tell you. The
common denominator is a country with a totally
contradictory and messed-up set of priorities...."
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here to read the article)
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12/22/04 How states voted in the 2004 Election and percent of
population with college degree
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12/22/04 Federally Favored States
“During fiscal 2003, taxpayers in New Mexico benefited the
most from the give-and-take with Uncle Sam,” said Moody. New Mexico
received $1.99 in federal outlays for every $1.00 the state’s
taxpayers sent to Uncle Sam. Other big winners were Alaska ($1.89),
Mississippi ($1.83), and West Virginia ($1.82)
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here to read the article)
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12/21/04 Foreign applications to American graduate schools declined 28
percent this year. Actual foreign graduate student enrollments dropped
6 percent. Enrollments of all foreign students, in undergraduate,
graduate and postdoctoral programs, fell for the first time in three
decades in an annual census released this fall. Meanwhile, university
enrollments have been surging in England,
Germany and other countries.
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here to read the article)
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12/13/04 On December 8, 2004, the President signed the Omnibus
Appropriations Act for 2005, which includes important provisions of
law affecting the H 1B temporary worker program. Most of these
provisions will be effective on March 8, 2005. The "H-1B
Visa Reform Act of 2004" section of the omnibus bill contains
provisions which directly affect institutions of higher education, and
affiliated research institutes, including the University of
California, Berkeley.
(Click
here to read the
announcement)
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12/12/04 "What we do isn't exactly what mathematicians do,"
she explained. "And I know more alums here become artists than become
mathematicians. But kids don't study poetry just because they're going
to grow up to be poets. It's about a habit of
mind. Your mind doesn't think abstractly unless it's asked to -
and it needs to be asked to from a relatively young age.
The rigor and logic that goes into math
is a good way for your brain to be trained."
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here to read the article)
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12/07/04 "The
United States was also cited as having the poorest outcomes per dollar
spent on [elementary/high school] education. It ranked 28th of 40
countries in math and 18th in reading."
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here to read the article)
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12/05/04 "...We are facing a mounting crisis in science and engineering
education. The generation of scientists, engineers and mathematicians
who were spurred to get advanced degrees by the 1957 Soviet launch of
Sputnik and the challenge by President John Kennedy to put a man on
the moon is slowly retiring."
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