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...approved a position paper concerning strategies for facilitating foreign-student procurement of work visas and then moved on to consider the Teaching Hotline Act. Sponsored by both Petersen and Sundquist and representing one of their primary campaign promises, the act looks to establish a means of allowing students to alert professors of poor TF performance. It passed with unanimous consent. Students will be able to contact the TF hotline by sending e-mails to tf@hcs.harvard.edu. Anonymity is guaranteed; a student board bound by a confidentiality agreement is charged with collecting input for presentation to the course professor...
...monoculture. Disgruntled insiders are learning from past strategies and international manipulations of radio—such as Radio Radcliffe and Radio Universidad in Oaxaca—to re-orient themselves to radio’s possibilities. And in Minot, North Dakota, the failure of corporate radio stations to alert the public about an impending toxic cloud (really, we don’t make this up) made the need for local control over Emergency Alert Systems all too obvious.So please—tune in, turn on and don’t drop out. Radio has shown itself to be a resilient...
...strategic blunder for the mainland, argues Kurt Campbell, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former top-level U.S. defense department official. "The fundamental principle of China's foreign policy for the last three or four years has been to do nothing that will alert the world to China's arrival as a world power," Campbell says. The test, while sending a clear signal to Taiwan about China's capabilities, may also embolden American neoconservatives who want the U.S. to aggressively challenge China's military and economic ascendancy. China itself has remained notably circumspect: after...
...makes soothing noises, but Daniel senses something unusual is happening. He sucks his fingers for comfort, but, finding no solace, his mouth crumples, his body stiffens, and he lets rip an almighty shriek of distress. Mom picks him up, reassures him, and two minutes later, a chortling and alert Daniel returns to the darkened booth behind the screen and submits himself to Babylab, a unit set up in 2005 at the University of Manchester in northwest England to investigate how babies think...
...activation between the cortex (the wrinkled surface of the brain) and the thalamus (the cluster of hubs at the center that serve as input-output relay stations). Large, slow, regular waves signal a coma, anesthesia or a dreamless sleep; smaller, faster, spikier ones correspond to being awake and alert. These waves are not like the useless hum from a noisy appliance but may allow consciousness to do its job in the brain. They may bind the activity in far-flung regions (one for color, another for shape, a third for motion) into a coherent conscious experience, a bit like radio...