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Another will tackle the question of teaching basic science and technology, and a third committee will coordinate advising and counseling, including the possibility of assigning freshman students to upperclass Houses...
...relating tastes, smells and sights of wine with the basic vocabulary of wine enthusiasts, White said she hoped to give students confidence in shopping for wines and ordering off a wine list...
...There are, however, considerable grounds for skepticism over the extent to which the training of Iraqi forces can transform the situation. Military training involves imparting combat skills and organizational discipline to create efficient fighting units with high levels of morale and confidence. By measure of basic combat skills and organization, the Iraqi security forces may already be substantially superior to Moqtada Sadr's rag-tag Mehdi army, which is composed largely of unemployed young toughs from the Shiite urban ghettoes. The difference between them on the battlefield, however, is based on morale and confidence - in other words, on motivation...
...Edison's line that genius is 99% perspiration," says Valenta. "She was a super-organized person." Which is why he was quick to notice when she began behaving oddly a few years ago - leaving the front door open when she left the house, "vagueing out" during conversation, struggling with basic instructions. In January last year, at the age of 54, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which doctors predict will end her life within six years unless there's a breakthrough in treatment...
...overwhelming majority of Muslims condemn violence committed in their religion's name. Many Islamic scholars take pains to point out that the basic texts of the faith never sanction the wanton murder of civilians--the defining feature of contemporary Islamic terrorism. But rage is shared by tens of thousands of radicals, estimated conservatively, who span the globe, from the badlands of Pakistan to middle-class neighborhoods of Western Europe. In Britain, a recent government survey put the number of hard-core Muslim radicals at 10,000 and growing. A poll of British Muslims in March found that 13% believe that...