Mystery meat, beverage, and your choice of a just desserts.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although the term "culinary mystery" sounds like something served in a school cafeteria, one of the most flourishing sub-genres of the mystery today features chefs, caterers, restaurateurs, and other members of the food industries. Rather like the academic setting in mysteries, the world of haute...

Research, publishing, and tenure among Texas biologists.
This study examined opinions toward research among biology faculty in Texas institutions of higher learning. The objectives of the study were to determine what the viewpoints of Texas biology faculty were toward research according to faculty rank and institutional type. Mailed questionnaire approach was used in this study to...

Wall of reason: Alan Dershowitz v. the International Court of Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION The work of Alan Dershowitz spans a great deal of the law: criminal, of course; civil liberties and international human rights; and international humanitarian law as well. A notable theme in the Dershowitz oeuvre is his relationship to Israel and Judaism. (1) Again and again...

Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing (2nd ed.).
Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing (2nd ed.) edited by Kathleen B. Gaberson PhD, RN, CNOR, ANEF, and Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF; New York: Springer Publishing, 2006; 308 pages, $50 From a directed discipline, nursing has evolved dramatically as a profession. Today's nurses hold advanced...

TENURE, ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND THE TEACHING OF CRITICAL THINKING.
The article examines the thesis that tenure and academic freedom are vitally needed for teachers who are competent in teaching the skills of critical thinking and the pursuit of truth within the context of the academic content they are being paid to teach. Critical thinking is defined as making...

Tenure practices in allied health and nursing.
Abstract This manuscript presents an in depth review of the literature on the tenure policies and practices in allied health and nursing education. Specifically, the manuscript summarized the existing published studies that investigated the educational requirements for tenure; promotion and tenure rate; the role of scholarship in...

When post-tenure review policy and practice diverge: making the case for congruence.
Is there anyone in the academy who has not heard some apocryphal anecdote about the professor who used the same old yellowed lecture notes for decades, slept through every department meeting, or never published anything after being tenured? Such stories, along with real questions about quality of instruction, overemphasis...

Academic Freedom and Tenure: between fiction and reality.
Perhaps no belief has been more central to academic life than that of academic freedom. In the twentieth century academic freedom became enshrined as the raison d'etre for the professorate. For many individuals, colleges and universities existed in large part to enable the search for truth by the faculty....

Call me Nestor.
HAVE YOUR ever played a game in which participants identify themselves with an animal, biblical figure, athlete or Greek hero, and others try to guess the connection? I learned how hazardous this can be not because of the hero I chose but because someone identified me with one. ...

Ankle-deep in danger.
IN OCTOBER NBC's Today show covered the floods in New Jersey with a live shot of correspondent Michelle Kosinski, who was paddling a canoe. As she was paddling, "two men walked between her and the camera--making it appear the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep" (as was...