Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herbert brings in potentially captivating ideas: the fantasy version of a Malthusian crisis and the clash of two omnicompetent cults both of which are the playthings of a greater power. However, he fails to develop them beyond the elementary stages. The lifestyle of those doomed to live on the rim goes unexplored when it could be the most graphic part of the book. Herbert only touches on the training it takes to be a Legum, how the newly indoctrinated members shed their skins (that is much easier for a frog to do than a human.) Herbert should initiate the reader...
...more abstract aspects of medical education. He admits that building character is a "slightly romantic" side of the school's efforts. He notes, however, that some of the best experiences in medical education occur when students and faculty work closely and learn together, as they must in order to develop this quality in doctors. He complains that the biggest problem in developing effective teaching is the size of the Medical School, which has expanded greatly over the past three decades...
...dean says he wants to see the center develop educational demonstration projects in the Harvard community "that could inform the current public debate about health policy." Like teaching innovation, the development of demonstration projects seems to be a prime concern for the 52-year-old dean. When he addressed an annual meeting of the American Association of Medical Colleges in 1974, he said, "I propose that the academic medical community move independently to increase the quality and quantity of its efforts in educating the public about health. Each medical center could establish experimental programs in health education in its region...
...center's administrators integrate all these activities with efforts to develop basic academic skills. The environmental investigations, for instance, often require the use of mathematical skills. Students at the end of each afternoon write a review of their day's activity in their journals. The various historic sites on the island--first settled in 1627, the island served as a British encampment during the Revolutionary War--provide resources for social investigations. In homework assignments, Thomson staffers ask students to apply what they have learned on the island to investigations of their own mainland communities...
...sales of nuclear reactors and reprocessing plants goes on virtually unabated. As of June, 1977, 21 nations had a total nuclear generating capacity of 47,655 megawatts produced by 138 reactors, and 41 foreign nations have firm commitments to develop nuclear energy...