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...Education “should not impose a one-format-fits-all standard (amount of reading, number of exams, and so on) on general education courses.” It is up to the legislative committee to write this lenient philosophy into the new general education system and to construct a Standing Committee on General Education that is more flexible than its current counterpart.It is also up to Faculty legislation—which would presumably be drafted by the same committee—to deal with the transition period between the Core and the new general education system, which will...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Count More Classes | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...sure what it means,” said Lu, who is expected to receive his PhD in physics in 2007. “It could be proof of a major role of mathematics in medieval Islamic art or it could have been just a way for artisans to construct their art more easily.” British scholar Roger Penrose was the first person to mathematically describe this concept in the Western world in the 1970s. Since then, the mathematical theory has been further refined by Steinhardt and Dov Levine, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania. The new study?...

Author: By Sonam S. Velani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Mosques Reveal Mathematical Insight | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...Norwegian government will construct a seed vault, to be completed in 2008 on the Arctic island of Svalbard, that would preserve the world's agriculture in case of a global climate crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next: Feb. 26, 2007 | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...films deal effectively with the Cold War, Hoberman says “the place where you have to go to see movies about Vietnam is Westerns.” He ascribes a similar ability to construct strong metaphors to the Western, but he cautions that some cultural anxieties overload the films that try to deal with them...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoberman Reveals Cinema’s Cold War Secrets | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...nation such as Britain is required to answer to its peers over a specific case highlights the prominence of the fight against corruption. The o.e.c.d.'s 30 rich country members signed an antibribery convention in 1997 after years of difficult negotiation and several failed attempts by others to construct something similar. That 1997 convention - under which signatories pledge themselves to outlaw bribery of foreign public officials in international business - has since become the cornerstone of international antibribery policy; six non-o.e.c.d. members, including Brazil and Argentina , have also signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Endless Cycle Of Corruption | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

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