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1. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Reject siren call for change: Najib
   published by The Straits Times
   The Straits Times Reject siren call for change Najib p Opposition targets chief minister who has been dogged by allegations of graft /p p dir="rtl" span class="embed_photo_div" dir="ltr" span class="embed_photo" /span /span Prime Minister Najib Razak landed in Sarawak and headed straight to the interior to urge voters to reject the opposition's call for change a call targeted specifically at longtime Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud Speaking yesterday to the people in Saratok several hours drive away from the state capital of Kuching he said the opposition slogan of Ubah or "change" in Malay may sound like nectar but is actually poison "Some of us in the four states administered by the opposition have fallen for the Ubah slogan but today the people there are disappointed," he said Tan Sri Taib is not among the 57 candidates currently criss-crossing Sarawak to press flesh and give fiery speeches Sarawak after all is not holding a state election this year only a parliamentary one.
   
2. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM A vision for a society of equals
   published by The Straits Times
   The Straits Times A vision for a society of equals span style="font-size 14px line-height 18px " Last week a discussion broke out among my friends when one asked how she could get her sons into a brand-name primary school. /span Several ideas were aired such as how she should buy or rent a property near the school or do volunteer work What underpinned the conversation was this Get into the right primary school with an affiliation to an established secondary school and the child would be set for life After all everyone in the group went to a brand-name school What struck me about the conversation was how it contrasted with a vision outlined by Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam recently in an interview with Singapolitics on the future He declared that how you did in school at 18 should not define your life Singapore in 20 years should be a society where people treat one another as equals regardless of their education or job.
   
3. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Get teachers' input on streaming
   published by The Straits Times
   The Straits Times Get teachers input on streaming Managing editor Han Fook Kwang's suggestion that students of differing academic abilities be spread out among all schools including the so-called elite ones might create more problems than benefits "Hail the new meritocracy" last Sunday Our so-called elite schools select students based on their academic abilities regardless of their financial backgrounds This is a form of streaming according to the students abilities Streaming is necessary for effective teaching-learning to take place By putting students of different academic abilities in the same school those who cannot catch up will do badly in examinations while the brighter ones will become bored if teaching caters to the weaker students If teachers were to cater to their students differing needs they would find themselves bogged down with preparing lessons targeted at different learning levels Top schools seem to produce a higher percentage of top scorers Thus there is a perception that they must have better staff and teaching programmes.
   
4. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Big Dreams at Shanghai Car Show
   published by New York Times
   In the latter vein, the world's car designers showed off an impressive array of bold-looking concepts at the Shanghai auto show over the weekend, bringing revered nameplates back to life in modern skin and introducing wild new ideas that could someday become automotive norms. Dreamed up by legendary General Motors design chief Harley Earl, the car's lines...
   
5. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Haute Hostels
   published by New York Times
   A flat-screen TV flickered in the next room of my suite, but I was more captivated by the view that lay just beyond the glass doors of my balcony: the orange tile roofs of Lisbon, washed in the glow of a setting sun. From London to Lisbon, from Iceland to Istanbul, hostels are undergoing a classy rebirth. A rooftop Jacuzzi at Bunk in Istanbul; a cinema room at Design Hostel...
   
6. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Street Smarts: From Holland, Bright Ideas for Highways
   published by New York Times
   Not according to the unlikely combination of Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch art-school bohemian, and Heijmans, a conventionally minded infrastructure developer, who are teaming up on an array of quirky, interactive designs that could change the way streets look and even act. And they are not alone in Europe in rethinking the highway landscape in an age of high...
   
7. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Italian Soul, Now Supersize
   published by New York Times
   TESTED 2014 Moto Guzzi California 1400 Custom. At $15,460, it competes with big-bore American and Japanese cruisers, but it undercuts the Ducati Diavel supercruiser by a cool $5,000. Theologians may think not, but that doesn't keep motorcycle makers all over the world, from Milwaukee to Mandello del Lario, the Italian home of Moto Guzzi on Lake Como, from giving it...
   
8. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM The Secret Ingredient Is Ford Fusion
   published by New York Times
   I'd like to make a confession: I'm a Lincoln owner. I have a 2010 MKT EcoBoost and I love it. The recently renamed Lincoln Motor Company would do well to create such a distinction across its lineup, and the 2013 MKZ is a hopeful indication that Lincolns of the future will be stylistically removed from their Ford relatives.
   
9. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Barkley Learns That Bad Things Can Come to Those Who Wait
   published by New York Times
   Barkley was plucked by the Philadelphia Eagles, who will have a five-deep quarterback collection headed by Michael Vick. But Kelly has no longstanding loyalty to the presumed starter Vick or his backup Nick Foles, who now could be gone, although the Eagles did sign Dennis Dixon, who ran Kelly's offense at Oregon. So Barkley will probably have at least a chance to...
   
10. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM The Sounds of a Mystery
    published by New York Times
    PALO ALTO, CALIF.-- The performance space of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University was filled to capacity on a recent Saturday morning, the blinds drawn against the optimistic California sunshine. Diana Deutsch, the psychologist who had designed this aural brainteaser and used it to open her talk here at a symposium,...
    
11. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Germans' Dominance Is Peak of a Long Climb
    published by New York Times
    A decade later, the teams are each a game from a potential showdown in the final of the Champions League. After Borussia Dortmund trounced Real Madrid, 4-1, on Wednesday night, players in their yellow-and-black uniforms sat on the field at Westfalenstadion, listening to their fans serenade them.'' That was a clear signal for all of Europe,'' the announcer for German...
    
12. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM The Fastest Rowers Don't Always Make The Fastest Boat
    published by New York Times
    This interview with Jen Guzman, C.E.O. of Stella& Chewy's, a pet food company based in Milwaukee, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were some important lessons for you growing up? A. I learned one running cross-country, and part of it came from knowing my weakness, which was just pure speed.
    
13. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM A Brooklyn Oasis
    published by New York Times
    After an adventurous gut renovation that replicated its prim brick frontage but transformed its rear walls into a four-story curtain of glass and created a two-story-high internal wall composed entirely of plants, a former parking garage/office in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, has been reimagined as a single-family oasis and is about to enter the market at $8...
    
14. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM When Assimilation Stalls
    published by New York Times
    THE immigration legislation percolating in the Senate has been pitched as an all-things-to-all-factions compromise. Illegal immigrants will be regularized, but most of them will have to wait at least a decade to gain citizenship. That figure is up sharply since the 1960 s, and it's projected to climb to 37 percent by 2050. A vote for the Senate legislation...
    
15. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Trying to Slam The Bailout Door
    published by New York Times
    The legislation, called the Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act, emerged last Wednesday; its co-sponsors are Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, and David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican. Enormous institutions, like JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, would have to hold common stockholder equity of at least 15 percent of their consolidated assets to protect...
    
16. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Disgracing Justice
    published by New York Times
    The state of Georgia may soon execute Warren Lee Hill, Jr., an intellectually disabled man with an I.Q of 70. Under a 2002 Supreme Court ruling it is unconstitutional to execute him or anyone in that category-- but the Constitution, in this case, may not win out. Three experts concluded in 2000 that Mr. Hill was not intellectually disabled. The doctor whose evaluation...
    
17. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM When Your Data Wanders To Places You've Never Been
    published by New York Times
    A FEW weeks ago, a friend received a flier in the mail inviting her to an event in Manhattan for patients with multiple sclerosis. ''What's in it for you? ''said the flier from MS LifeLines, a support network for patients and their families that is financed by two drug makers, Pfizer and EMD Serono.'' Strategies for managing and understanding your symptoms.
    
18. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Food Aid Reform
    published by New York Times
    Since the mid-1950s, the United States has spent nearly $2 billion annually to feed the world's poor, saving millions of lives. Reforms proposed by President Obama will go a long way toward fixing that problem and should be promptly enacted by Congress. This has been a boon for domestic farmers and shippers, but more than 30 studies in the last decade have...
    
19. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM Sibling Rivals
    published by New York Times
    In Elizabeth Strout's fluid and compassionate new novel,'' The Burgess Boys,'' her first book since the Pulitzer Prize-­ winning'' Olive Kittredge,'' the connections among Jim Burgess and his younger twin brother and sister, Bob and Susan, are central to the story. A sour, divorced optometrist, Susan still lives in Maine, where they were all raised, with her 19- year-old son,...
    
20. 4/28/2013 12:00:00 AM The Mind of a Con Man
    published by New York Times
    It was close to midnight, but his colleague Marcel Zeelenberg had called and texted Stapel that evening to say that he wanted to see him about an urgent matter. The two had known each other since the early' 90 s, when they were Ph.D. students at the University of Amsterdam; now both were psychologists at Tilburg University. In 2010, Stapel became dean of the...