News and views for Saturday 8 February
- Amid Flow of Leaks, Turkey Moves to Crimp Internet
- Why the hermit can be the perfect garden ornament
- Administrators and Part-Timers: Changes in U.S. Higher Education Workforce - “U.S. higher education has been seeing three main changes in staffing patterns in the last decade or so: 1) part-time faculty are way up; 2) administrators are way up; 3) and staff are down. In the middle of all this, the number and pay of full-time tenure track faculty hasn’t changed much.”
- Rathbone’s wine dynasty dream costs him a fortune – “For a man who admits he’s not a serious wine buff, the way Doug Rathbone has destroyed much of his wealth by throwing an estimated $100 million at vineyards may seem peculiar.”
- Is Syria now a direct threat to the U.S.? - “Over the last two weeks, Obama administration officials have signaled – sometimes intentionally, sometimes not – that a worst-case scenario is emerging in Syria. Peace talks are at a virtual standstill. An emboldened President Bashar al-Assad has missed two deadlines to turn over his deadliest chemical weapons. And radical extremists who have fought in Syria are carrying out attacks in Egypt and allegedly aspire to strike the United States as well.”
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