Kansas backs lessons critical of evolution

Business backs the basics.

arlier this year, a number of leaders from major U.S. corporations gathered at Sunnylands in California to discuss the critical importance of basic scientific research. For decades, the private sector has withdrawn from some areas of basic research, as accelerating market pressures, the speed of innovation, and the need to protect intellectual property in a global marketplace made a Bell Labs–s...

Boys' Backs

an unimportant amount of time bending over his desk, so that bad positions have not the opportunity of making more or less "staying" faults. But at this time a beginning may be made, either for good or bad. The boy may. be trained to sit correctly at his seat, especially when writing or drawing. lie may be trained to read with his book held before his eyes, not with the book flat upon the desk....

Backs to nature

" There's a perception that global warming is something that will happen smoothly into the future, but some of these ecosystems go into abrupt decline when warming reaches a certain threshold, " said Tim Lenton, an environmental scientist at the University of East Anglia, and lead author of the study. " If we know when the different tipping points are, we can use them to inform targets to limit...

The Evolution of Long-term Care Programs; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...

VoiceLETS backs up first responders