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...from students is below them because they are “more wise.” Regular evaluations should form the cornerstone of improved teaching. But diagnosing a problem is quite different from curing one. The implementation of most of the Task Force’s recommendations will inevitably depend on the goodwill and focus of the Faculty, which has yet to fulfill such lofty expectations in other areas of undergraduate education. Officially, there is almost no way to ensure that professors audit each other’s classes or that teaching evaluations be given more weight in highly secretive...
...stock by publicly bashing the company's management." Other observers were appalled at the buyout. GM officials got rid of Perot, contended Mary Anne Devanna, director of research at the Columbia Business School Management Institute, "to protect their own hides. Their careers, big bonuses and fancy perks all depend on maintaining the status quo. GM is in trouble, and sooner or later it will have to find a Ross Perot to dig itself out of its problems." Keith Grain, publisher of the weekly Automotive News, seemed disappointed at the turn of events. Said...
...asked me why I'm declaring my candidacy in this magazine when the leaders I'm following have announced theirs on glitzy websites. Well, the painful truth is, the spot I wanted, Amazon.com was already taken--by a special-interest group, no doubt. When I'm President, you can depend on me to roll up my sleeves and do something about that...
...million Number of people who depend on the Yellow River as their major source of water...
...make scientific headway in a topic as tangled as consciousness, it helps to clear away some red herrings. Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home. Nor can consciousness be equated with self-awareness. At times we have all lost ourselves in music, exercise or sensual pleasure, but that is different from being knocked out cold...