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...traditional wisdom at colleges across the country is that understanding the productive interface between scientific disciplines first requires full tool boxes from each of the fields, tool boxes that are packed during the freshman and sophomore years. Then, if you make it to the upper level science courses, light dawns, and you are ushered into 21st century science, complete with its porous boundaries between fields. Unfortunately, however, far too many students never make it to the dawn...
Arnold Arboretum. May 9, dawn to dusk. Free. Orange Line to Forest Hills...
...amidst his contemplations of selfhood and subjectivity, Williams also continually returns to the vivid observations that give his work such buoyancy. In “Riot,” Williams evokes the music of dawn’s approach after a tumultuous, sleepless night: “The first dawn crows / sound like humans imitating crows, / but hungrier than crows, or more afraid. / The rising light gilds / then slashes red the fallow fields.” Throughout “Wait,” Williams consistently reveals perceptions of the world unique to his own alert senses...
...dawn assault at Druid's Ridge in the Welsh mountain range known as the Brecon Beacons was the culmination of an eight-day maneuver that forced cadets to survive the claggy cold without cover and on minimal sleep. The physical exertions are complemented by intensive academic study of military history and strategy. "Where we are fundamentally different from our peer academies at West Point, Saint-Cyr and Dresden is that we are a military academy that has a significant intellectual, academic component. They are military universities that do military training," says Colonel Tim Checketts, Sandhurst's chief of staff...
...giving Benazir Bhutto adequate security was a deeply cynical, deliberate decision," says Cyril Almeida, a respected analyst with the Pakistani newspaper Dawn. "The assassins may have been intent, but they were given an opportunity." (See TIME's photo-essay "Aftermath of an Assassination...