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...fact, many students said that the rapid paceof events will put them behind in their normalwork schedule, and their academic lives will, as aresult, be waylaid on the road to mid-term exams...
Herrell's Cookies & Cream ice cream is uniquein the Square. As the manager told us, they don'tblend the Oreos into the vanilla ice cream. As aresult, the vanilla is pure and the large chunksof cookie are not as soft as at some other stores,like California Pizza Kitchen and Emack & Bolio's.The ice cream is, nevertheless, very good...
...normative ethicspossible? The title of the chapter "The MoralFirst Aid Manual" should give some indication:Dennett sees the process of moral reasoning asessentially chaotic and endless, and he valuesmoral rules simply as semi-arbitrary ways ofending a moral deliberation. He has no deepcommitment to any principle, but merely wants aresult, and it doesn't seem to much matter whatthat result is: "We cannot expect there to be asingle stable solution...but rather a variety ofuncertain and temporary equilibria, with theconversation-stoppers tending to accrete pearlylayers of supporting dogma which cannot themselveswithstand extended scrutiny but do actually serveon occasion, blessedly...
...context of a multitude of issues--HMO'sand managed care, the New Pathway curriculum atHMS, specialization versus primary care--Langonerepeatedly argues that many of the students becomedehumanized, over-specialized and one-dimensionalas a result of the fierce pre-med race. As aresult, they end up knowing little about realdoctoring and interacting properly with patients...
...Houses were officially co-ed bysuite and unofficially co-ed throughout. Some ofthe frantic mixer scene seemed to abate as aresult, and men and women alike got a preview ofhow our future mates might look bleary-eyed over abreakfast table...