http://netvouz.com/garoldstone?feed=rss&pg=68 garoldstone's bookmarks on Netvouz http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4592890.stm More than 10m female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection in the past 20 years, according to medical research.Researchers in India and Canada for the Lancet journal said prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girls a year garoldstone Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:06:18 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/13/AR2006021301755.html?nav=rss_print/asection But the question remains: Are smaller classes good public policy? Most teachers teach 20 children exactly the same way they would teach 30; there is no real change in most teachers` approach to how they teach, despite fluctuations in class size. Individualization is more intention than reality. Washington Post Feb 14, 2006 A08 garoldstone Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:49:54 GMT http://store.infocus.com/escalate/store/ConfigurationDetailPage?pls=infocus&bc=infocus&pc=LP120&tab=desc&clist=017080322b5b%3A017080322b5f&ret=Projectors-Business&pls5catname=Projectors-Business&group=configure&pls0affiliate_id=infocus&pls1source_id=LP70plusLP120_Yes InFocus Store (p)(f) garoldstone Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:31:15 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/politics/12inquire.html?hp&ex=1139720400&en=bec57e8374e374e4&ei=5094&partner=homepage Federal agents have interviewed officials at several of the country`s law enforcement and national security agencies in a rapidly expanding criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding a New York Times report ... New York Times Feb 11, 2006 garoldstone Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:37:19 GMT http://www.odci.gov/cia/reports/iraqi_mobile_plants/index.html Iraqi Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Plants (p)(f) garoldstone Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:33:50 GMT http://www.skepdic.com/intelligentdesign.html Intelligent design (ID) is an anti-evolution belief that asserts that naturalistic explanations of some biological entities are not possible and such entities can only be explained by intelligent causes. Advocates of ID maintain that their belief is scientific and provides empirical proof for the existence of God or superintelligent aliens. They claim that intelligent design should be taught in the science classroom as an alternative to the science of evolution. garoldstone Tue, 23 May 2006 18:02:42 GMT http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5007508&ampsourceCode=RSS Sternberg was the editor of an obscure scientific journal loosely affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, where he is also a research associate. Last year, he published in the journal a peer-reviewed article by Stephen Meyer, a proponent of intelligent design, an idea which Sternberg himself believes is fatally flawed. NPR 051110 garoldstone Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:08:40 GMT http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060111/NEWS02/601110428/1006/NEWS01 IndyStar.com (p)(f) garoldstone Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:02:46 GMT http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00443.htm Greens NSW Australia Education spokesperson John Kaye today released figures showing that 2,800 private school students in Newcastle and the Hunter valley are at risk of being taught Intelligent Design as science. He called on federal and state education ministers to withhold public funding until these schools agreed to quarantine science teaching from religious dogma. Feb 24, 2006 garoldstone Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:47:07 GMT http://www.mlive.com/news/statewide/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1141915206318170.xml&coll=1 The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and a Michigan science group promoting the teaching of evolution say proposed high school graduation requirements open the public school door to intelligent design and creationism. MArch 9, 2006 garoldstone Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:39:06 GMT