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Perhaps it is the odd combination of Eastern European, intellectual and Midwestern values that accounts for Nagy's vast popularity at Harvard. In contrast to the elitism and even eccentricism which seems to afflict so many scholars. Nagy is both self-assured and self-effacing. He speaks with great knowledge and conviction about his work, but always with an undertone of modesty...
...years of the Monkey, Pig and Goat, but from time to time, a Dengian antidote has been offered. Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and Richard Bernstein's From the Center of the Earth supply in valuable truths to counter the diseases that afflict so many tourists: romanticism and naivet...
Cleft palate and cleft lip, which often occur together, are among the most common birth defects in the world. In the U.S. they afflict about one out of 750 babies. The lip is easily sutured by a plastic surgeon within ten weeks or so of birth, but the gap in the roof of the mouth, usually open clear through to the nose, cannot be closed until the facial bones have grown. This may take a year or more. That period can be trying for both parents and child. First there is the shock of the baby's disfigurement...
Richard Pipes' comparison between cancer and nuclear war is seriously flawed. Cancer strikes a minority of our population. Many victims recover. Nuclear war would afflict us all, and none would survive...
...exchange the order of the numbers in an addition problem without changing the answer to the problem." According to Gerry Murphy, head of the math department at Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., Saxon also tries to confront two fundamental weaknesses that afflict most Algebra I texts: the lack of a sense of continuity and connection among topics, and student failure to remember the material already covered. Saxon presents the material in small linked units, without the traditional division into chapters. Saxon treats the problem of retention by the obvious and old-fashioned device of a large number of daily cumulative...