Worried that students have not been performing well enough on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams, the state Department of Education (DOE) has mandated yet another requirement for its 391 school districts.

Move your hands atop the worn table in the darkened room and it responds with jumbled sounds: a man and woman talking, knives being sharpened, tires screeching, breathing, music.

Images that purport to show in living color the parts of the brain that generate such virtues as compassion, fairness and wisdom are invading turf that was once reserved for philosophers, theologians and psychologists.

Today's world leaders should launch a global initiative to take broadband to every corner of the planet. The costs are minor when compared to the benefits.

The Business School at the University of Auckland will host the Fourth Asia/Pacific Research Symposium on Accounting Information Systems. The symposium will be held on Monday 16 June and Tuesday 17 June 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand.