Word: detailism
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Throughout his tenure, however, Lewis has borne the frequent complaints—both from The Crimson and from undergraduates in general—with a mixture of good humor and close attention to detail. He has not hesitated to justify his decisions, frequently shooting off e-mails to students in the middle of the night to answer their questions or correct their misapprehensions. His efforts to improve students’ lives were, quite literally, tireless...
Will this new vision of genes enable us to leave the nature-nurture argument behind, or are we doomed to reinvent it in every generation? Unlike what happened in previous eras, science is explaining in great detail precisely how genes and their environment--be it the womb, the classroom or pop culture--interact. So perhaps the pendulum swings of a now demonstrably false dichotomy may cease...
Speaking in a crowded white tent on the rainy evening, University President Lawrence H. Summers commented playfully, “If there’s anyone in this room who’s capable of understanding the depth and detail of these three theses, I’m prepared to move over and give them...
...many games tried to push the envelope this year. Only one took the envelope and tore it into tiny and perfectly paper-like shreds. The makers of this follow-up to 1998's hugely popular sci-fi horror Half Life border on the obsessive-compulsive with their attention to detail: human faces with more than 40 working muscles; characters that lip-synch their lines no matter what language they are speaking; objects like mattresses and wooden frames that, when shot, explode and shatter in the precise directions you'd expect. The plot involves a hostile alien takeover of the strangely...
...Half an hour away in the city of Baucau, Domingos Ximenes is on security detail at a compound that houses about 200 of his fellow ex-guerrillas. Most of them are jobless and live here in a crumbling, white building with boarded windows and a high fence topped with barbed wire. Ximenes had gone back to his wife and child in the town of Laga, east of Baucau, but was told they couldn't afford to support him. With nowhere else to go, he went to the compound, which at least provides shelter for displaced former fighters like...