Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huks by building schools and hospitals, repairing wells and roads, and providing land-improvement loans to farmers. The other is the cold steel and hot bullets of a 3,800-man military force under Colonel Rafael Ileto, 46, who was named last winter to hunt down the hard-core Huk leaders...
...erotic scenes recur with increasing intensity and without direction toward any well-defined, wholesome idea." As of now in California, declared the court, Chant d'Amour is "nothing more than hard-core pornography, and should be banned...
Because medical schools and other science departments may require two or three years of chemical training, teachers in the Department find that even advanced courses tend to split into two groups. There is a core of serious chemistry concentrators. But there are also many, both inside and outside the Department, to whom chemistry is a tool for some other specialty...
Insofar as this represents an attempt to add topics of special interest to the "core" course material, these reforms are valuable. But there is a danger that special topics will replace, rather than supplement this core, and that some of the split courses will acquire a heavily pre-med or pre-bio accent and lose their rigor...
...puts much of the blame on science teaching. "It is hard for people to find out that scientists are human because they teach only the public science, not the private kind of science that they spend their lives thinking about. We expect students to wrap themselves around a core of, say, physics like ivy around a tree. That's all right if students are already committed, but otherwise it won't work -- they're the wrong kind...