Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the 1970s, when Harvard did away with the General Education requirements and replaced them with a Core curriculum, there has been an ongoing debate about both the quality and the quantity of required science and math education...
...COOP simply isn't positioned to compete with online booksellers. More than a dozen UC members compiled data comparing book prices at the COOP with the prices that online booksellers charge. In all, we collected information on new book titles for 24 classes at the College--12 in the CORE program, and 12 departmental offerings...
...clarify the purpose of blocking groups to first-years before these misinterpretations gel. Blocking should be addressed far before first-year housing forms are due in March so as to explain that a blocking group should never encompass one's entire social circle but rather provide students with a core of companions with which to experience and identify with their specific house...
That takes all of five minutes, and in two weeks Dr. Meirowitz will snake an endoscope--a flexible tube with a fiberoptic core--down my throat (not pleasant but, he assures me, not as awful as it sounds). If he sees Barrett's, he'll bring me back every year for another look and, if necessary, a biopsy. Under this sort of regimen, my chances of getting cancer will drop dramatically...
Rainwater fresh and palpable as crinoline, East of the Mountains tells the story of Ben Givens, a retired heart surgeon in Seattle who has recently lost his beloved wife of 50 years, Rachel, and has been told he has terminal cancer. Pragmatic to the core, he puts his dogs into his car, collects his father's gun and, on a rainy October morning, sets off toward central Washington to shoot himself. Almost instantly, though, he smashes his car and, surviving by a miracle, finds himself a scary-looking vagabond on the loose. All he has to sustain...