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As concerns mount over the costs and benefits of higher education, it may be worthwhile to glance at the benefits of high school education at present as well. Of course, [...]

An approach for genome analysis based on sequencing and assembly of unselected pieces of DNA from the whole chromosome has been applied to obtain the complete nucleotide sequence (1,830,137 base pairs) of the genome from the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae Rd. This approach eliminates the need for initial mapping efforts and is therefore applicable to the vast array of microbial species for which genome maps are unavailable. The H. influenzae Rd genome sequence (Genome Sequence DataBase accession number L42023) represents the only complete genome sequence from a freeliving organism., A prerequisite to understanding the complete biology of an organism is the determination of its entire genome sequence. Several viral and organellar genomes have been completely sequenced. Bacteriophage φX174 [5386 [...]

High school studentsE expository writing is characterized more by emotion and personal experience than by facts. However, the problem is that when these students enter college, they need to know facts, dates and the viewpoints of various experts and authors to write their college papers, and limiting them to writing and thinking almost entirely about themselves in school does not prepare them for future writing tasks.

I liked Diane Ravitch's review of Paul Zoch's Doomed to Fail (Winter 2005), which I also read with great interest. The myopia that overlooks student effort is, in my view, [...]