Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Harvard should not shy away from a more aggressive affirmative action approach when it is thought necessary to combat pervasive institutional biases. In order to jump-start diversification efforts, the Administration should tell search committees of departments with the most glaring gender inequalities to include sex as a factor in the evaluation of candidates...
...surprisingly, conventional researchers see this as dancing away from the question. "Weil wants you to believe that you don't need the scientific approach, that you don't need to demand evidence," says Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School. "I resent well-educated people exploiting irrational elements in our culture, and that's what he's doing...
...that's just for breakfast. In ever greater numbers, Americans are embracing self-medication: a roll-your-own approach to health care that favors home-designed, prevention-oriented vitamin and drug regimens. "Forty-five percent of the U.S. population is using vitamin and mineral supplements," says John Troup of General Nutrition Centers, the U.S.'s biggest retail supplement chain. "It's a trend that's definitely become mainstream...
Actually, much of what has gone wrong with Mir is largely a result of unavoidable wear and tear. Improvised fixes have helped the Russians solve problems--at least temporarily--as they have arisen, and experts say that this handyman approach is appropriate for a ship designed for years of use. "The space station is a different vehicle from the shuttle," says James van Laak, a NASA deputy director. "You tolerate a different set of failures...
...absence of widespread faculty or administrative support for a department, this is a good approach to take. However, students must be wary that the successes they achieve have no guarantee of permanence unless a department is eventually created...