Word: constructionism
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The downturn's effects are visible everywhere: Harrah's recently halted construction of a $700 million casino project on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, leaving barely a set of pillars, and threatening the recovery of an area battered by a series of hurricanes earlier this decade. Meanwhile, bankers in Charlotte, N.C...
At his town hall meeting last week, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith said that he had identified some reductions in discretionary spending but that these only accounted for about a third of the unprecedented $220 million deficit. Though the faculty is edging toward layoffs...
Harvard’s leaders are right in focusing our limited resources on our core missions: research and teaching. Staff layoffs, construction slowdowns, and faculty recruitment freezes will be necessary. But the magnitude of the endowment decline makes it unlikely that the budget can be balanced without more shared sacrifice...
Further, Harvard is currently slowing down construction in Allston, freezing budgets, and slowing the hiring of new faculty. Some academic programs have had to cut the number of students they admit. If Harvard does not even have enough money for these activities central to a research and teaching institution, then...
Researchers think that the region in question, called the posteromedial cortices (PMC), also plays a role in the maintenance of consciousness and the construction of self - of "I'm me and I'm here." The theory is that since social emotions are processed using the same systems, we are able...