Word: compacting
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...Late last month, California Assemblyman Jim Levine introduced the bill, which would ban traditional incandescent bulbs from California by 2012. The goal is to force Californians to replace their scalding-hot, energy-wasting bulbs with more efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). You might’ve seen these new bulbs: they look like a fluorescent tube-shaped bulb curled up into a small coil about the size of, well, a light bulb. (As I look up from my computer, I’m happy to report that the chandeliers in the Adams House library are all using CFLs...
...classes so that professors are held accountable for the quality of their teaching. Students also deserve to see feedback from their peers when choosing courses.Fortunately, reforms relating to CUE evaluations are already on the Faculty’s docket in the form of the “Compact to Improve Teaching and Learning at Harvard” released last month by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development. The UC should take advantage of the Task Force’s report in pushing additional reforms to CUE evaluations.A second key goal should be to move January exams to December...
...position—is paternalistic. If top-notch PhDs want to focus on teaching, Harvard should let them do so. And Harvard should go one step further by giving these teachers a hand in crafting curricula and requirements, a privilege currently reserved for full faculty.The proposed “Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard” has given us new hope that the Faculty will renew its effort to improve teaching. Its implementation must now become a top priority of the entire Faculty, a reoriented Task Force, and the administration, lest that hope be squandered...
...were doing ... This is all about making sure that Iranian networks that are building or assisting people in building these highly explosive IEDs can't do it. Nobody challenges that [Iran] can be a part of reconstruction. In fact, it's one reason they're included in the international compact. That would be fine. But that's not what these agents were doing...
...center of Sofia brims with Old Country attractions--the changing of the presidential guard, streets made from yellow bricks gifted by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I--but the city of 1.2 million is compact enough for visitors to venture to locales off the beaten track, like the communist monument turned skate park in Borisova Gradina and the Ladies' Market, where average-income Sofians do their shopping. The marketplace of storefronts and open-air kiosks sells everything from clementines to wallpaper to negligees to banitsa, a flaky pastry stuffed with the feta-like "white cheese" used in many Bulgarian dishes...