Truth: Can You Handle It?
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Truth: Can You Handle It?
Washington Post – Apr 27, 2008
"The addition of "collateral misinformation" to UrbanDictionary. The entry: "When someone alters a Wikipedia article to win a specific argument anyone who reads the false article before the ‘error’ is corrected suffers from collateral misinformation. "And a scholar at the Hoover Institution performed an experiment with totally unsurprising results: When 100 terms from U. history books were entered into… ‘ " Grill says his students quote opinions as facts and rarely consider whether the source is a person of authority. For the six-week research project he puts them through detox: limiting their online sources to a maximum of three making them use library reference desks dealing with their assertions that anything found in a book couldn’t be very useful — wouldn’t the information be like way outdated?He accepts Wikipedia as a starting place but encourages his students to think and not memorize. Grill says he "cannot in good conscience" let his students graduate without knowing how to conduct good research. "When they go off to college that’s when they really get their hands caught in the cookie jar. "At least that’s what he’d assumed but he has had some troubling visits from former students. "They say ‘h Mr.
Three Wise Guys: Speed Enforced by Aircraft Hairy Comebacks and Who…
Washington Post – Apr 27, 2008
We like to call ourselves "journalists of the future. " (We like to call ourselves this because it implies we’ll have jobs in the future. ) We write and edit stories test beauty products painstakingly research (Wikipedia) the questions we receive for this column and craft dazzling responses. Each of us also has to work two shifts a week in the cafeteria help organize the company picnic and get coffee for Bob Woodward whenever he demands it. If you wake up early enough you’ll even see us delivering the paper to your doorstep. Dan: f all these tasks the Woodward coffee run is the most taxing. Per his demands we grind and brew Arabica beans from Costa Rica and mix it with two parts cream one part cough syrup.
SF Chronicle Submissions
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 27, 2008
Standards that are unknown and unknowable backed by the threat of license revocation for companies and jail for individuals create a pervasive fear that is far more effective than direct regulation at muting opposition to the government and its policies. Web sites based outside China meanwhile are subject to blocking by the Great Firewall based not on their content but on their capacity to create inside China large voluntary online communities that are independent of the government. These include almost all blogging services Wikipedia and wiki platforms generally (Wikileaks included) social networking Web sites and peer-to-peer technologies of all kinds including photo-sharing and video-sharing businesses. In other words the full panoply of Internet 2. Web sites commanding vast audiences for user-generated content are seen by authorities as a grave threat. The Chinese government’s worst nightmare after all is a lone and anonymous Tibetan uploading to YouTube grainy cell phone videos of rioting police.
The coming trillion-dollar global storm – Jamaica’s hidden…
Jamaica Gleaner – Apr 27, 2008
A trillion-dollar loss would hit hard. HW DID THE WRLD END UP HERE?Wikipedia website defines a sub-prime loan as “one that does not meet the lending requirement of the US Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae)”. Borrowers who meet the criteria are called prime borrowers and are usually safer loans. Those do not meet the criteria are therefore ’subprime’ borrowers who to get a loan must pay higher interest rates. These loans are then packaged and sold as a security to other financial institutions.
Political Notebook: Hillary caught telling another fib?
MetroWest Daily News – Apr 27, 2008
Fun fact: Truman did not have a middle name only a middle initial. org)This Week in Political HistoryApril 27 1861 – President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. April 28 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NAT. April 29 1974 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal. April 30 2003 – The United States declares official end to combat operations in Iraq.
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