By Nicole Hemmer, a fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs writing a history of conservative media
... liberals would do well to consider the implications of government regulation of on-air content. Do we really want government monitoring broadcasts, weighing their politics, and pushing program remedies? The doctrine died in the 1980s because it was seen as a muzzle on controversial broadcasting. It would do well to stay dead.
Former shuttle astronaut Kathryn Thornton co-authored two new reports-from the National Research Council and from the Planetary Society-assessing future NASA mission proposals, including manned missions to the moon and to a nearby asteroid
During the presidential campaign, President Elect Barack Obama promised to reform the nation's healthcare system, and that change can't come too soon for many hospitals. WVTF's Sandy Hausman profiles the University of Virginia Medical Center and its on-going efforts to get paid.
Former University of Virginia lacrosse player Will Barrow has died. UVa spokeswoman Carol Wood confirmed Sunday that Barrow died in Charlottesville. His cause of death could not be determined as of press time. Barrow was 22. Dom Starsia, head coach of UVa's men's lacrosse team, said the team has been spending time together since they heard the news on Saturday. 'The whole thing is stunning and completely bewildering,' Starsia said. 'We're just trying to sort this out.'
Friday night at the University of Virginia, dancers in the Mahogany Dance Troupe came together to show off their moves. This two day event is called "Lights, Camera, Action!"
Malcolm Bell III
Professor of art history who has supervised archaeological excavations at Morgantina in Sicily
Cleveland art museum to return 14 stolen items to Italy
Cleveland Plain Dealer / Nov. 20
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/steven_litt/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/122717358326580.xml&coll=2
Robert Bruner
Darden Dean
La Vanguardia (Spain) / Nov. 20
"Los cracs ocurren porque no se sabe decir 'no lo entiendo'"
http://www.lavanguardia.es/free/edicionimpresa/res/20081120/53583105160.html
(Full article available upon request)
Susan Chaplinsky
Darden professor
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By Ron Wilcox, Darden professor and author of "Whatever Happened to Thrift?"
... We do need to increase our savings, but the reasons Americans don't save have much more to do with our success than with our failure. ...
As Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office, his transition team is trying to figure out what to do about Guantanamo Bay, the military prison where about 225 suspects are still being held without trial. WVTF's Sandy Hausman reports a new drama, shown at this year's Virginia Film Festival, could help Americans better understand what's been going on there.
... programs such as Teach for America and the city's Teaching Fellows program have made the distribution of high-achieving teachers more equitable across New York City and might have helped narrow the gap in students' test scores, a recent study concludes. ... And Jim Wyckoff, a University of Virginia professor who was one of the authors of the study, told me his analysis suggested that if schools only 'hired teachers who looked like the best group,' or the very best college graduates, student achievement could rise even more.
Buzz is spreading in the tech security community about widespread reports that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a former state and U.S. Attorney General, is likely to take command of the rudderless Department of Homeland Security. Another former AG who knows Napolitano well, Robert Crouch, sang her praises at an I3P tech security workshop at the University of Virginia I just returned from.
... At a post-election conference at the University of Virginia on Friday, political scientist Larry Sabato suggested that the economic crisis could mean that interval should be shortened. ..."The shorter the transition period, the less uncertainty for the markets, the nation and the entire world." ...Others on the panel - including a former secretary of State and three members of Congress - said an earlier inauguration wasn't feasible.
Assistant professor of sociology Allison Pugh, author of the soon-to-be-published book "Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture," advises how to handle children's refrains of 'gimme' from now until Christmas
U.Va. pediatric cardiologist Karen Rheuban, president-elect of the American Telemedicine Association, consults for the Swinfen Charitable Trust, a telemedicine charity that relies on simple, inexpensive technology -- e-mail and digital photos -- to provide immediate medical consultations to some of the world's poorest people.
... The University of Virginia Research Park, known as North Fork, hit a milestone this month, having developed roughly its 500,000th square foot of building space.