Daily Archives: Nov. 12, 2005

Where’s respect for expertise?

Nov. 12, 200512:02 a.m.

University of Kansas chancellor Robert Hemenway told The Eagle editorial board this week that while there’s room for debate on evolution, he would like to see "a little more respect for people who have been trained as scientists."
In fact, one of America’s most respected scientists, E.O. Wilson, biology professor emeritus at Harvard University, this week slammed the Kansas State Board of Education’s vote on evolution, saying there is no evidence to support the theory of intelligent design.
"It (ID) hasn’t even begun to imagine how you would take a supernatural force and transcribe it to organic processes," he told The Kansas City Star.
But then, some ID proponents will probably ask, what does he know?
Posted by Randy Scholfield

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Voter frustration will only go so far

Nov. 12, 200512:01 a.m.

Midterm elections are often referendums on the party in power, so Democrats could capitalize solely on voters’ frustration with the Bush administration in 2006. But if Democrats hope to carry that momentum into 2008, they will have to address the fact that voters do not think highly of their party, either. In a recent Post-ABC News poll, just 35 percent said they approved of the job Republicans in Congress were doing, while only 41 percent gave a positive rating to the Democrats.
Posted by Melissa Cooley

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Technology giveth; technology taketh away

Nov. 12, 200512:00 a.m.

A recent Harris Interactive poll found that employees with Internet access surf the Web on personal business for an average of 3.7 hours a week. But maybe workers are just trying to get back the time that e-mail has taken away. According to a New York Times article, “Dealing with e-mail — filing it, cataloging it, prioritizing it — has added hours of extra work a week, much of it done by people in the late evening and early morning.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley

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