Word: basic
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...week. Is studying two weekend nights per month, by less than two-thirds of the students, really too much? How do they survive in New Haven, where students have to take a fifth course during half their terms? Is feeling that one need not study on Friday nights a basic right of students that the institution should strive to maintain? Should the Dean of the Faculty perhaps impose a no-homework-on-weekends policy, as happens in grade school...
Birmingham said the inspiration for the system stemmed from the failure of 59 percent of potential teachers to pass a basic competency test last April...
...basic message of the study is simple, says Gorman: "Do not divorce the sex from the relationship." Yes, it is true that some sexual problems are medical. "Men with diabetes, for instance, are more likely to be impotent because of circulation problems," she says. But broader issues in a relationship can have an equally devastating impact on a person's sexual functioning. It is interesting to note, says Gorman, that Viagra ads (two of the authors of this paper worked on the development of Viagra) have focused their pitch on how the product helps nurture a relationship...
...Slate used to sell basic school supplies, but has moved away from those into more expensive specialty items...
...Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America (Basic Books; 707 pages; $32.50) Kevin Phillips fetches back 3 1/2 centuries for a complex, ingeniously woven explanation. His thesis, mostly persuasive, is that the English-speaking world prospered as it has because in three internecine conflicts (the English Civil Wars of the 17th century, the 18th century's American Revolution, and the 19th century's American Civil War) it hammered itself into new political, cultural and religious shapes that gave the Anglo cousinhood both energy and stability: "Broadly, the result was to uphold political liberties, commercial progress, technological inventiveness...