PUBLIC MARKS with tag right-nuttery

A decade after competition was introduced in their industries, long-distance phone rates had fallen by half, air fares by more than a fourth and trucking rates by a fourth. But a decade after the federal government opened the business of generating electricity to competition, the market has produced no such decline.

[NYT] Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.