Word: contact
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...within a dying core curriculum, with no clear guidance of how to navigate the changes currently underway. There is still no student center. Undergraduate advising leaves much to be desired. And, perhaps most importantly, a large number of undergraduate courses continue to harbor sub-par instructors, and faculty-student contact is worse than it was 20 years ago. It is imperative, therefore, that you choose a president who will continue much-needed advocacy on behalf of undergraduate interests...
...nothing you can get off a toilet seat, unless you ate off of it,” Harvard University Health Services (UHS) Chief of Medicine Soheyla D. Gharib writes in an e-mail. “Most disease transmission occurs by mucus membrane to mucus membrane contact, coughing, food handling by people with infections such as hepatitis, sharing utensils, or sharing needles,” writes Gharib. Popular Science Magazine seconds Gharib, confirming that illnesses like influenza and strep throat can’t make the leap from the seat to your immune system. Your germ-phobe mom wasn?...
...settlements are built in order to maintain Israel's Jewish ethnic majority has been deonounced as "ethnic cleansing." In the past, he has suggested bombing banks, gas stations and populated areas of the Palestinian territories, and he said earlier this year that Arab members of the Knesset who had contact with Hamas should be executed...
...Dean's staff, the Nebraska Democratic Party held conventions in 68 of the state's 93 counties this year, up from 36 in 2004; participants signed up to canvass and serve as precinct captains. Grant says staff members from the Democratic National Committee have worked to identify and contact potential voters in his district, a task congressional candidates in most states have to do themselves. Party officials in Idaho and Nebraska credit the communications directors they hired with Dean's funds--neither state had a full-time party flack--with helping coordinate their messages and successfully attack G.O.P. candidates...
...spend on tools that help us make more money, says Larry Compeau, an associate professor of marketing at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. "Two-car family? Of course, how else are you going to get to work?" Compeau asks. "Cell phones? Most companies want to be able to contact you even if you are at home having dinner." We even feel the need to get the most out of our leisure time, spending money on faster Internet connections and cable channels by the thousand...