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Next time the waiter brings you the billfold after a meal at a Shangri-La hotel, be sure to dig deep. The[an error occurred while processing this directive] Asia-Pacific hotel chain is running a charitable drive, entitled Dare to Care, at around 40 of its properties, from Dubai to Sydney. Guests put their donations into a red envelope contained in the billfold (the packets are based on the traditional Chinese envelopes used for making gifts of money at festive occasions) and the sums are given to the Beijing-based charity Care for Children, for use in the organization...
...odorous Chem 135, “Experimental Synthetic Chemistry.” If you ever plan to work in a chemistry lab in the future, or you’d just like to play around with chemicals ranging from curiously dangerous to don’t-you-dare-drop-that dangerous, button up your lab coat. The course mostly consists of a weekly marathon eight-hour lab. There, graduate student TFs patiently guide clumsy undergrads through the ins and outs of stirring, pouring, clamping, filtering, and cannulating (nothing too raunchy, don’t worry). Having Chem 135 tucked into...
...History and Science concentration is perfectly designed to make a student look well-rounded, providing a convenient boost to any resume. The reason? It’s neither history, nor science, but both. Don’t you dare confuse the concentration with the department, which is clearly labeled History of Science. The reason for the difference in nomenclature is that the concentration is interdisciplinary (that’s all the rage these days!), while the department is not. The field is based on the premise that scientific developments are deeply contextual: political, economic, and social considerations determine the shape...
...idea was to dare Democrats to oppose those counterterrorism measures, they were on to the trick. In a private memo to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Jan. 31, his staff laid out the danger in mounting too aggressive a criticism of the freshly disclosed National Security Agency's espionage program: "National security issues are the only issues propping up President Bush. Democrats in general cannot permit themselves to be characterized as being weak on terrorism. We must make it clear that Democrats believe the terrorist threat must be dealt with forcefully and effectively." With that in mind, Democrats were...
...woman with bold opinions and vision. But the joke is on us because we lose every time we permit ourselves to shrink the pool of qualified candidates, female or male, to a collection of shallow and weak-minded individuals who are more likely to muddle in mediocrity than dare to dream...