Word: bunches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even though you won’t be declaring your concentration (or what every other normal college in the nation calls a “major”) until your sophomore fall, many of you are undoubtedly already uneasy about your nebulous academic futures. Sure, a bunch of you, fast-tracking your way to medical school, might be resolute in concentrating in some kind of biology. Some of you might guiltily enter Harvard’s gates feeling obligated to honor the impossible applied math-physics-philosophy triple major you put on your college application. But many of you probably...
...Section reading is a borderline case. You might participate better if you’ve done it, but you could spend a bunch of time on this and then find that it never comes up. The latter scenario is slightly more common. That said, it’s generally not a bad idea to figure out what the reading’s about (via the Internet) if you’re going to need to discuss...
There are two basic points about health care reform that President Obama wants to convey. The first is that, as he put it in an ABC special in June, "the status quo is untenable." Our health care system is rife with "skewed incentives." It gives us "a whole bunch of care" that "may not be making us healthier." It generates too many specialists and not enough primary-care physicians. It is "bankrupting families," "bankrupting businesses" and "bankrupting our government at the state and federal level. So we know things are going to have to change...
...develops over time. Does your research shed light on that question? Yes, there's quite clearly an innate basis for our moral sentiments. The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one. And we know babies imitate facial expressions and are sensitive to emotions; there seems to be a very strong connection with other people early on. It is a very hopeful finding. (Read "What...
...your portfolio? I've never understood gold and why you would want to own an asset that has no income return and actually costs you money to own and store. I sort of agree with what [Warren] Buffett said, about how he never understood why they send a bunch of men 5,000 feet under the ground in Africa to bring out this metal, and then they ship it all across the world and it's buried 1,000 feet underground at the Bank of England and the U.S. Treasury. There is something illogical about...