Word: behavior
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...Perkins family's dispute--which has cost the district $191,000 in legal fees--school administrators say the parents are penalizing the district for Luke's behavior off campus. "The issues that they had were really surrounding home," says Karen Pielin, the district's special-ed director. Teachers from Berthoud went to the Perkinses' house to help get Luke on a schedule that would reinforce what he was learning at school. But Luke's father Jeff, a rheumatologist, said that even though they tried hard, the competing needs of their three other children made it impossible to keep Luke...
...Allegations of political cynicism have been known to stir as much admiration as horror in France, but French tolerance for such behavior may be reaching its limit. This summer, President Chirac issued a presidential pardon to Guy Drut, a former Olympic hurdler who had been convicted for taking a fictitious job in Mayor Chirac's municipal administration. But when the government then claimed that thus pardoned, Drut should be able to assume a spot on the ethics committee of the International Olympic Committee, public reaction was swift and severe, and the government backed...
...definitely helps to be a science concentrator in this class. The material is very biological, so those with a biological background have a huge advantage over the Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy concentrators required to take the course because they're in the Mind, Brain, and Behavior track. The Kandel textbook, written for upper level courses, is dense and chock-full of arcane jargon—don't bother buying...
Always wondered why your best friend was elected homecoming king while his sister started freebasing at age 11? Psychology 1603, “Adolescent Behavior,” a survey of adolescent development from the ideal to the freaky just might have the answer. Professor Debbie Sorenson, a Lowell House residential tutor, seems barely older than a teen herself, and her lectures are light-hearted and enjoyable, especially since she incorporates a course-related clip from favorite teeny-bopper flicks into most. Even if she doesn't inspire you, guest speakers and panels (the hidden jewels of Psych 1603) spice...
...questions beyond the all-purpose “It won’t be on the final.” That’s fine for English concentrators doing their time in hard science, but if you’re actually trying to engage with the material (ecology, linguistics, behavior, and genetics), prepare for some serious frustration...