America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree

Marty Nemko writes, at the Chronicle of Higher Education, that some folks are not helped by a college degree. Universities aren't being held accountable for the job they do, and are turning out a bad "product": illiterate college graduates.

Unbelievably, according to the Spellings Report, which was released in 2006 by a federal commission that examined the future of American higher education, things are getting even worse: "Over the past decade, literacy among college graduates has actually declined. … According to the most recent National Assessment of Adult Literacy, for instance, the percentage of college graduates deemed proficient in prose literacy has actually declined from 40 to 31 percent in the past decade. … Employers report repeatedly that many new graduates they hire are not prepared to work, lacking the critical thinking, writing and problem-solving skills needed in today's workplaces."

Of course, his answer is more government regulation. But you as a consumer can do something to protect yourself: demand more information from the school before you attend, or let your child attend.

Under attack: The owner of a house struck five times by meteorites fears aliens are targeting him

via the Daily Mail: "'The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate.'"

Five times in one year. Perhaps God wants his attention. Mark 8:18 "Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear?"

I think they were all created at the same time and place and put into orbit at the same time, which is why they are hitting the guy's house in such a short span of time. They became separated over time as they moved through gravitational fields which altered their speed.

However, I'm not an astronomer, but there are 1700 astronomers in the U.S., making an average of $95,000/year, so perhaps one of them has an explanation.