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...Swan's Nest). Meanwhile, Wright wants to take her writing back to its roots. "I thought it could be a grand idea," she says, "if one day Carpentaria could be read in one sitting in the Gulf, or in the schools, just like James Joyce's Ulysses is read aloud every year on Bloomsday." Australia, get ready for Desperance...
...Teskey's large mop of auburn hair has the uncanny feature of bobbing along to each recited word during English 10a, “Major British Writers” lectures. The hair bounces over both the heroic might of Beowulf and the lyrical beauty of Herrick as he reads aloud in both Old and Middle English. Soon you'll want to join the facebook group "Actually, Gordon Teskey Should Narrate in Middle English for the Rest of My Life." Most importantly, Teskey always boils texts down to what Harvard students pine after: sex. Just a few words from the Professor...
...classes is that Garry Procter is no longer teaching them. Professor Matthew Shair, who taught 27 last year, will take over 20 this spring. Not to worry—he has certainly (read: hopefully) learned by now that copying notes from a binder to the board and reading them aloud is not an effective teaching style. Lastly, a note about the difficulty of orgo: half the challenge is the problem sets and three midterms. The other half is the relentless competitiveness of certain pre-meds, against whom the class is curved. But, do take heed: it is possible...
...shortcomings of fMRIs may be more serious. Physical anomalies such as evidence of a stroke or tumor can interfere with the scan's accuracy. And the test is administered in a decidedly unnatural way--with the subject lying down inside a giant magnet. Since speaking aloud activates regions of the brain that could swamp lie-detection results, subjects are asked yes-or- no questions and then instructed to push a button to answer. Maybe the brain operates the same way with a push-button fib as with a verbal one--but maybe it doesn't. And because...
...conversion process can involve years of preparation and study. In Islam, the process is called reversion (because islam literally means "submission to God," believers hold that everyone is born Muslim), and it's mainly a matter of uttering a two-line declaration of faith, the Shahadah. Say the Shahadah aloud in Arabic, and the conversion is complete...