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...everybody who has ever watched public television.” But the show has raised a few eyebrows. “It initially seemed very bizarre—why would you do a musical about this bizarre antique?” Johnson says. The show itself spans a broad range of themes and time periods. “We wanted all of the characters to be the heartland of America. It’s kind of folksy, it’s definitely not all business suits or all cowboy hats,” Johnson explains. “The look...
These seminars, many of which will be adapted from current conference courses offered by the history department, will allow students to complete a research paper using a broad range of sources drawn from an area that interests them, Gordon said...
Paglia says she is also a proponent of broad-ranging courses that give students a sense of history...
...will be hard to explain away the "fishapod," as Shubin and his team nicknamed their find. Unlike a true fish, it had a broad skull, a flexible neck, and eyes mounted on the top of its head like a crocodile. It also had a big, interlocking rib cage, suggesting that it had lungs and did at least part of its breathing through them, as well as a trunk strong enough to support itself in the shallows or on land. And most startling of all, when technicians dissected its pectoral fins, they found the beginnings of a tetrapod hand, complete with...
...child is making progress. It may be interesting to ponder how much you've retained of what you learned at school. Those who've forgotten umpteen mathematical formulas and the periodic table are generally none the worse for it. Though there's much to be said for a broad education, there's also merit in the view that children should be free to explore what interests them. Mujahidah Flint's daughter Tahirrah reads encyclopedias and dictionaries for fun. "I don't like dumb, funny books," she says. "I like the classics . . . Dickens, Kipling." At 10, she wrote her first book...