Excessive specialization has created a culture of expertise that has distorted higher education and had a negative impact on faculty members, students and the broader society.
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Mitt Romney and Barack Obama concur on how to deal with the politics of gay marriage: Keep it below the radar.
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Obesity has become a danger far greater than hunger. Yet amid the alarming stories about its harm to America’s health and economy, one bit of information has been drowned out: The percentage of U.S. adults who are obese appears to have plateaued.
Read MoreThe Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential hopeful edged into third place in a poll today as campaigning drew to a close for the first election for Egypt’s top post since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power.
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In the late 1990s, regulators in some U.S. states began to make electric utilities sell their nuclear reactors to private operators. They weren’t trying to help head off climate change, yet they managed to do just that.
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Put this one in the category of the famous quote often credited to Mark Twain: "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Going into the NATO Summit this weekend, the U.S. can celebrate some good news: Pakistan has reopened a route for the first time in six months that allowed containers of supplies for the U.S. embassy in Kabul to pass through to Afghanistan. Pakistan closed all supply roads after U.S.-led airstrikes along the border killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers on Nov. 25, 2011. Before opening them, Pakistan wanted an apology from the U.S. for the attack that many Pakistanis saw as intentional.
Too Sexy for Indonesia. Lady Gaga can add this bit of infamy to her resume as the nation with the largest Muslim population bars her from performing. It seems she is too vulgar to fit Jakarta's conservative culture.
Mitt Romney has already "repudiated" a proposed independent ad campaign that would have used President Barack Obama's former relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to attack the president. It wasn't a hard call for Romney.
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