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"Most academics assume that classical music of 19th century writers are in some absolute way superior to contemporary pop culture, like 'The Simpsons' or 'South Park,' which is just not true," Vaux says. "Both are products of their time's pop cultures."
Another incongruence between the theory and the implementation of the Core is that courses within a particular Core area often are not linked by any discernable approach to knowledge. The economic methods of analysis employed in Social Analysis 10: "Principle of Economics," are radically different from the linguistic methods employed...
"There is nothing inevitable about poor advising," Lewis wrote in an e-mail. "I am persuaded that a lot has to do with departmental culture, and those cultures can be very deep seeded and hard to change."
For two solid years, Dr. Perry Molinoff and his colleagues methodically tinkered with a couple of molecules they had identified the old-fashioned way--by testing tens of thousands of compounds on cultures of growing cells. Among other things, they adjusted certain structural features to reduce the chance that the...
But it is tougher today than it was thirty years ago to make a home--as the Portuguese did--in Cambridge. Despite praising Cambridge for its acceptance of new cultures, for instance, the Haitian immigrant community is slowly leaving after 20 years in the city.