Word: copious
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Tenure at Harvard requires, above all else, copious publication. The peer-review process in scholarly journals and university presses subjects one’s work to harsh criticism by one’s intellectual rivals and demands punctilious caution in the handling of evidence and logic. The best way to guarantee success is to choose a specialty where mastering the entire literature is feasible and where one has few rivals. Such pursuit of expertise can generate finely tuned knowledge, but it can also generate territorialism and stifle debate. For example, another faculty resident in Leverett House in 1997-98 (when...
...burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane - a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide - India's livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contributes more to global warming than the vehicles the animals obstruct. With new research suggesting that methane emission by Indian livestock is higher than previously estimated, scientists are furiously working at designing diets to help bovines and other ruminants eat better, stay more energetic and secrete smaller amounts of the offensive gas. (See pictures of India's largest ruminant: the Asian elephant...
...Undeterred, a group of students and rogue professors held a "Pirates Screening Teach-In" on Monday night, drawing some 200 attendees. Before a 30-min. excerpt - which included two threesomes and copious shots of corset-clad blondes - students, professors, lawyers and ACLU representatives stood up to defend porn on principle. English professor Martha Nell Smith, who noted that literature from Shakespeare to Dickinson includes pornographic elements, said it's a student's choice whether to study erotica and "our job together to contextualize it." (Read about porn and the iPhone...
Ever wondered if HUDS actually has those legendary underground tunnels for channeling soups and sauces to various dining halls? Or pondered whether your breakfast pizza is actually just last night’s dinner drenched in a copious portion of scrambled eggs? If so, you’re in luck: the UC is now raffling off tickets to behind-the-scenes tours of house kitchens, no gold wrapper required. Find out how to win a foray backstage after the jump...
...lasted at least five days, during which I dressed up in full Maasai gear. My homestay mama was quick to replace my Western clothing with appropriate apparel to fit in with her family—I looked just like everyone else in my five layers of red blankets and copious jewelry...