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...report goes on to emphasize the relevance of science to current concerns like global warming and stem-cell research. It even mandates that courses which fulfill the Science and Technology requirement “frame this material in the context of social issues” (a stipulation that is absent from other requirements). But surely there is more to being knowledgeable in science than being able to follow the news. And surely our general science courses should aim to be more than semester-long versions of “An Inconvenient Truth.” Missing from the report...
...Dinner” is a relatively new play, written by Moira Buffini, and commissioned by the National Theater in London in 2002. Videt writes in an e-mail that she chose the play for “many of its nontrivial themes about marriage, absent children, consumption (of life, of experience, of food, of products), and social stereotypes.” She writes that she also “felt that Buffini had written incredibly complex and beautifully multifaceted female characters” in contrast with the predominance of “meaty male roles.” Videt promises...
...most part, however, the sense in the Arab world is that the U.S. is simply absent. And when the cat's away, the mice - in this case, the likes of Syria and Iran - will play...
...beyond with food problems. Along with sessions on nutrition and body image, the program addresses the particular challenges that older women face, from the normal signs of aging like wrinkling and sagging to marital issues such as divorce and domestic violence. The center found that when younger women are absent, older patients are more likely to focus on their own health rather than on nurturing their younger counterparts...
...anthropologist that she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well. Moreover, as a child I rarely came in contact with those who might offer a substantially different view of faith. My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition...