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...computers. “When a student has a question, he or she can ‘raise’ his or her hand by clicking a button,” Malan said in an e-mail. “Any TFs in the room will then hear a beep and they’ll see a number appear next to the student’s name signifying the student’s place in line.” CS 50’s venture is largely experimental. The course will continue to host traditional office hours. Course veteran Andrew...
...useless, most notably long forms, committee meetings and menu-driven care algorithms, are being implemented with increasing ferocity. It is only this machine that can make rational and humane treatment decisions for the suffering though. It is, in fact, only this machine which suffers. See past the ones that beep and blink; the mind remains our most important machine in medicine...
...bitch.” His teaching of high school students in New York, by contrast, was more unorthodox, he said, describing that they spent class periods crafting excuse notes for creative writing assignments, assigning themselves grades, or studying the “deeper meanings” of Little Bo Beep and Humpty Dumpty. They also invented obituaries for their teachers—“not [one] had a peaceful passing,” he added. Never confining his teaching to a syllabus, McCourt said, “I had no methods. I shot from the hip...I was able...
...close enough to make 2007 a campaign for the national title even more important for those who came 0.076 seconds short a season ago. “We thought we’d won—we were one seat up, and you look over and you hear the beep and think, I think I was a little bit ahead of their seven-seat,” junior Moritz Hafner says. “But our boat was a little bit shorter. Still, it took them more than 15 minutes to really figure it out by looking at the photo...
...potential target of arrest? "Do you think you're followed?" he asked, barely audible over the air-conditioning. I had to stop crunching on a butter cookie to hear him. "Hmm, maybe? But I don't think so," I said, wishing for a James Bond gadget-watch that would beep if I was. My answer must not have been reassuring, because when it came time to leave, he avoided walking out with me. "I'll just wrap up here," he said, pretending to shuffle some papers with a wary smile. Such is life in Tehran in the shadow...