From Education Next, Diane Ravitch and John E. Chubb on the future of No Child Left Behind. Is it harmful to dress up in overalls and run around the woods covering each other in goo? Southern Exposure: Republican strength in the South has both compensated for and masked the extent of the party's decline elsewhere. Compromised crime laboratories are a national scandal that can't be set straight until the labs are independent of law enforcement. A new study by three FBI officials suggests that cooperation —whether by witnesses or even other departments —is the key to closing more murder cases. People feel duped by Francis Bacon; such is our prejudice toward the scream (and more from Bookforum). From Seed, the recent sequencing of the bovine genome will dramatically transform more than just the cattle industry; and

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