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...this review cannot simply react to the past; it must forge the education of the future. Harvard must produce a curriculum that will be able to capitalize upon the opportunities, as well as cope with the new challenges, of the dawn of the 21st century. One of the most prominent challenges for the new curriculum, posed by University President Lawrence H. Summers in his installation speech, is how to integrate technology and science education into a liberal arts program...
...theatrics. Although Islam is the granite base on which his message rests, Aa Gym's sermons tend to dwell on the practicalities of daily life rather than the hazy hereafter. His stock-in-trade includes greeting-card clichEs, self-help nostrums and pithy doses of advice on how to cope with the challenges of child rearing, on succeeding in business (his three-day management seminars, costing $200 a head, are booked up for months in advance), even on a healthy sex life. "We feel like he cares about us," explains 22-year-old Irsan, wiping his eyes after a regular...
...Depot. But he steadily increases revenues 6% to 8% a year, and he books pretax margins of about 10% on $5 million in annual sales. "I'm a speck to the chains," he says, "but I do well." Over the years, he adapted his merchandise mix and pricing to cope with the big-box stores. He knows he'll never beat Home Depot and Lowe's on prices for $100-plus power tools, so he stocks a minimal quantity. Instead, he targets weekend tinkerers who need repair and maintenance goods in a hurry, and he has bulked up on lawn...
...home of 30 years in Read House at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) without consulting HUNAP’s administrators or the students, according to HUNAP Executive Director Kenneth Pepion. Now falling under the auspices of KSG, the program has to cope with the disorientation and confusion of an unwanted move and a possible shift in its mission...
...growing concern that pilots don't know how to cope with surprises is the reason that the FAA is researching the use of real aircraft and simulated midair emergencies to train pilots how to react to unexpected and severe movements by the aircraft. "The challenge is dealing with pilots who have years and years of safely and gently flying along, and suddenly they have a mechanical failure or a severe-weather incident," says Lou Knotts, an ex--fighter pilot who is now a vice president at Veridian, a research company that trains military and civilian pilots. "We're trying...