Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although his work has various practical applications, such as providing a better understanding of how earthquakes or heart attacks begin, McMullen says that the purpose of his research does not lie in its applications...
...mail that "the policies of this Faculty" concerning the evaluation of subjective work by undergraduates "are unambiguous." The language of the EPC's statement allows for interpretation, but this is not supposed to be one of those qualified statements the administration is so found of making, which usually begin with "ordinarily." Indeed, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz asserted in an e-mail that his office, which oversees spending for section teaching, "read[s] the `should not' with the force of wrong and inappropriate...
...scheduled contract negotiations will begin in early November and last for several months...
...weaknesses but rather a symptom of our collective distance from God. Our first disobedience let chaos into our world: chaos can be human sin; it can be a genetic predisposition for cancer. We are all shattered vessels, and death must come. Yet God's grace, like Super Glue, can begin to restore wholeness before death, and grace may flow even through a lowly novice chaplain. Baker apologizes for running on; he is tired and retires to sleep...
...Strauss has seen much worse than this. All the same, it's a needle again, another IV, so she braces herself a little. The attending nurse inserts it into her arm, and tens of millions of specially designed cells begin finding their way, she hopes, to the very core of the thing she has struggled with for years. Strauss, 76, is a retired preschool teacher from Chapel Hill, N.C., just down the road from Duke. For five years she has battled breast and liver cancer. Chemotherapy gave her two years in remission. The new breast-cancer treatment tamoxifen provided...