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...steep, but considering the challenges facing the undergraduate community, the College stands to benefit enormously from her demonstrated ability to spearhead progress within the context of the entire University, not just the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the College. She has already recognized two major issues that will demand her immediate attention: the renewal of the Houses and the implementation of the new General Education curriculum. To this list, we might add the inconsistent quality of undergraduate education, the perennially contentious matter of social life, and reform of the Administrative Board. Real progress on these issues will require...
...Chemical Bonding, Energy, and Reactivity,” through the course’s Web site. He and physics professor Efthimios Kaxiras, who teach the class together, co-wrote the textbook specifically for the course.“An essential theme of the course is how global energy demand is expanding rapidly and running out of control,” Anderson said. “Putting the textbook online saves a massive amount of energy and printing.”EDITIONAL PROBLEMSLike many introductory textbooks, Mankiw’s book has seen frequent republication. Retailing for $175 on Amazon.com...
Nobody on any side of the Iran nuclear dispute believes that yesterday's U.N. sanctions vote is going to break the deadlock. Faced with continuing Iranian defiance of the demand that it suspend uranium enrichment until concerns over the intent of its nuclear program can be resolved, the Security Council passed a package that incrementally tightens existing sanctions. It banned travel by certain officials of Iran's nuclear program, freezed the assets of certain companies and barred Iran from importing certain dual-use technologies. But Iran has made quite clear that it has no intention of complying with...
...Similarly, on the nuclear issue, Britain's ambassador to the U.N., John Sawers, told reporters that the Security Council would hold firm in the demand for Iran to suspend enrichment, but would pursue that goal through ongoing negotiations even as the limited sanctions are put into effect. Last year's U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Iran does not currently have a nuclear weapons development program has, in effect, removed the sense of looming crisis that had once driven the issue, and rendered the option of a U.S. military strike to destroy Iranian facilities highly improbable. (It is acknowledged...
...course, providing wider beds will incur some cost on the college, but the transition would be limited by demand and space. Some people might prefer to have a smaller bed, not anticipating any companions, and some rooms are too small to bear the spatial strain of a broader mattress. The potential costs of offering this necessary turnover might be less than we think...