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...away from contact. Translation: softer than a Bavarian pretzel. "I was strictly a jump shooter," Nowitzki admits. "When [opponents] took that away, my game was pretty much over." Dallas almost lost him. "He was a choirboy," says Donnie Nelson, president of basketball operations for the Mavericks. "We were afraid that he was struggling so much, he was actually considering going back to Germany." After a summer sweating with Geschwindner back home, Nowitzki nearly doubled his rebounding output the next year, and grew into a perennial All-Star...
...have a bad food allergy, a little precaution can go a long way. If your eyes water or you start to wheeze just from smelling certain foods, don't be afraid to ask the people you live with to avoid handling them or to wash their hands if they do. Your friends should probably also brush their teeth before any intimacies begin...
...When a colleague tells you what he’s hearing you say in lecture and gives you feedback, each of the lectures is maybe a notch better in team teaching.”Colleagues are a valuable source of feedback because “students might be afraid to criticize you,” Hartl says.Just as their published work is peer reviewed, professors’ teaching is peer-evaluated when they are part of a team.“It certainly can breed a little bit of competition, which is healthy,” says Hauser...
...Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World,” taught by Elkins. “I left lecture every time with my hand hurting.”In the History Department, Elkins “engages in all kinds of issues...and is not afraid to speak out on them,” says Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, who adds that Elkins’ book was “interesting and accessible to a large audience,” which is not easy to do, especially on the first try.ONE DOWN, MORE...
...totally to blame. Most of our national leaders, so afraid of losing votes, refuse to ask their constituents to face tough decisions. As a result our stake in America’s future becomes more and more abstract. Its not that we don’t care. We just don’t know what to care about or what our caring will accomplish...