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...picked a concentration, chose a blocking group, got randomized, camped, punched and winnowed our way through activities and people. What we are now is, to some degree, the culmination of an extensive process of refinement and specialization; the Darwinian forces of our environment have forced us to adapt, grow elaborate plumage or camouflage, and develop idiosyncrasies or talents we wouldn't have imagined possessing when we first arrived...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: What I Saw at the Senior Bar | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...have a lot of smart kids...do we want our children to be global and able to adapt, or do we want them all be sorts of physicists?" she asks...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The School Committee Under Fire | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...prove that the New Pathway has accomplished something specific is hard," Federman says. "Medical students will adapt to anything in order to get their education. But they like [the New Pathway] better...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS's 'New Pathway' Curriculum Copied at Other Schools | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...prove that the New Pathway has accomplished something specific is hard," Federman says. "Medical students will adapt to anything in order to get their education. But they like [the New Pathway] better...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Medical School's 'New Pathway' Curriculum Copied at other Schools | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...researchers Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan adapt an earlier idea for dispersing liquids and powders in a spray. Result: the aerosol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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