Florida Polytechnic University will be the state’s first public university to operate without a unionized faculty. EAGnews reports that FPU is ditching the tenure system altogether in favor of fixed-term contracts that will be renewed based on performance: Ghazi Darkazalli, the school’s vice president of academic affairs, said the goal is to focus faculty on […]
The last couple of days have seen the torrid pace of Middle East related news kick up to warp speed. The Benghazi hearings (unfortunately being seen more as the kickoff to a GOP Stop Hillary in 2016 campaign than anything else) dominated cable TV. The news that the US and Russia will convene Syria talks […]
Unknown gunmen kidnapped the son of former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani at a political rally today. Ali Haider Gilani’s secretary and guard were killed in the attack.The Pakistani Taliban and other radical groups have waged a deadly campaign during election season; 110 people have been killed in April alone. The attacks have disproportionally targeted […]
A new study has found the better adoption of just one technology could drastically increase the efficiency of US health care professionals—and it’s not some fancy new imaging technology or robotic surgery. It’s texting. USA Today: The study, sponsored by tech security firm Imprivata, shows that clinicians waste an average of 46 minutes per day waiting for patient […]
The venture capital firm behind some of the most prominent recent green tech flops, led by major Dem donors and advised by Al Gore, is in big trouble as the green bubble bursts and one highly touted green investment after another goes belly up. A good, in-depth article in NYT Dealbook shows how Kleiner Perkins, the firm […]
Two stories today (h/t OpenEurope) point to the realities of political life in the EU in these trying times.First up is the news that Silvio Berlusconi has lost his appeal over tax evasion charges in Italy. This long-running saga could stretch out even further; Berlusconi could appeal one more time, during which time the statute […]
The federal government has just released new data about Medicare reimbursement rates showing that the price of treatments vary widely from hospital to hospital. The data, drawn from 3,300 hospitals across the country, looked at how much each facility charged for the hundred most common treatments.The variations in price were incredible. For example, two different […]
We’ve already seen how American men are falling behind in college education and how the evaporation of industries geared toward male workers has left many men unemployed. But the problems aren’t limited to the United States. The UK’s Guardian compiled statistics that show how British men are struggling in a six other areas: prison sentencing, employment, education, homelessness, […]
Rumors of another massacre in northern Nigeria are filtering out of the country, and they don’t sound pretty. About 200 Boko Haram militants apparently laid siege to the town of Bama yesterday, attacked an army barracks and a prison, freed scores of prisoners and killed almost two dozen military personnel.In a separate but equally grisly […]
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