Word: basics
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...university's professional schools and research institutions have produced a dazzling string of scientific and technological breakthroughs. Stanford developed the world's first X-ray microscope. The Stanford Medical Center was the site of the nation's first adult heart transplant. Stanford research produced the basic patent on gene splicing and scores of other inventions that will net the university some $6 million in royalties this year...
WITHOUT a general, basic acceptance of the scientific method, education can only do so much. But people seem genuinely apathetic towards gaining any real understanding of the scientific view of the world. Just compare: the proporation of Japanese who deny evolution is only 13 percent...
Anyway, I have in recent weeks--like any good Bostonian--hopped aboard the Bruins' bandwagon and watched as they dismantled the Canadiens and took on the Garden Salad Devils (what else do their road uniforms look like?) from, appropriately, the Garden State. Now my basic conclusion from these weeks of NHL study is that hockey has the potential to be a great game. The action is fast and exciting, the play is of uniformly high quality and there's even artistry to match Micheal Jordan on occasion...
Henrietta Davis, another freshman on the School Committee, said Peterkin promoted equity in education. "He believes that all children can learn," she said. "He helped develop basic skills in children with difficulties." Davis added that the superintendent gave "more equitable allowances" to city schools with fewer resources...
...painters who obstreperously claim to be prophets. Gauguin was that discomfiting figure, a great artist with little modesty who made good on strident prophetic claims. He saw himself as both Christ and savage, sacrificial lamb and initiator of cultural mayhem. The whole tangle of the "primitive," so basic to early modernism, begins with Gauguin -- not in Tahiti but in Brittany, "savage and primitive," he wrote, where "the flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting...