Word: core
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...Whatever day it airs, however, a more serious issue for the freshman drama is one of gender imbalance. Lights' core audience right now is young men drawn to the football. But that's precisely what turns off women, who saw the testosterone-driven football promos early on and ran the other way faster than a halfback outracing the defense. But the reality is that the show is a character-driven prime-time soap that happens to be set in the world of the high school football. "It's a show about young people under extraordinary pressure and the adults that...
...National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services. The building will also house BSL-3 labs, which study pathogens with the potential for “serious health effects.” Many of these labs currently exist, including the Microbiology and Animal Resources Core Laboratory at the Harvard Medical School...
Then add to a Harvard student life the Harvard Faculty, those souls who’ve spent their lives in this wildly diverse environment. For 30-odd years, young learners have been fed into the Core Curriculum’s crucible of randomness. Though for the Faculty, this is real, damn it, and not some merely contrived artifice. And now, by way of these professors’ new Curricular Review, comes the watchword “internationalization.” (The professoriate might as well giddily exclaim, “Radicalize the Revolution...
Rules are rules, and however much College students despise the Core (and will probably come to despise its successor), they also must cope with it. Only the most brazen, worldly-wise student, at ease with casting his GPA to the wind, will remain obdurate to the Core’s nefarious invitation to partake of novel “global perspectives”—generously complimented by a course’s tinge of academic ease...
This pervasive Core mentality has warped even how I view my hometown, the most intimate and unassuming of places. Now, Montana has been enlivened by a schizophrenic dramatis personae...