Word: developable
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...DEAS faculty said that recommendation “provides too little incentive and structure for undergraduates to do advanced work and to develop the kind of superior scientific knowledge on which the advancements of science, engineering, and technology depend...
Abernathy said the second statement emerged from concerns that the reform proposal does not provide concrete incentives—in the form of funding, teaching fellows and other support—that the Core Office currently gives faculty who develop Core courses...
...winner's harshest assessment to date of Iran's nuclear program, and will state his inability to certify that it exists for exclusively benign purposes. The delay will also give Russia five more weeks to pursue its own efforts to find a negotiated solution. Russia, which has helped Iran develop nuclear reactors, proposes enriching uranium for those reactors on Russian soil-a proposal that would eliminate the need for Iran to maintain its own enrichment facilities, which would be essential to any covert effort to create weapons-grade nuclear material...
...higher level of flexibility for students, putting them in control of their own education. As for the transition to the new system, there are two clear alternatives. Students could be expected to complete the Core requirements that existed when they enrolled as freshmen, giving the faculty time to develop the new courses in general education while the rest of the student body would still be stuck with the Core. Alternatively, the new distribution requirements could be implemented immediately. Assuming the Faculty votes by the end of the year, which could be impacted by Kirby’s recent decision...
...reinvent themselves" as more active contributors to the national dialogue, says Roger Gibbins, head of the Canada West Foundation in Calgary. Gibbins, who points out that Alberta's C$9 billion-plus surplus is as large as the federal government's surplus, suggests that westerners will have to develop "thoughtful" ideas for sharing the revenues derived from their booming oil and gas reserves. "We are already working on new ideas, like a nationwide sustainable energy project," says Gibbins. Other west-based concepts that could get a national airing include the development of a new north-south transportation corridor, upgrading skill...