Word: developing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to teaching dance, the classes and the show help the kids develop positive self-esteem, says Stefanie H. Roth '89, who has taught classes for two years. "Performing arts are not the center of the universe, but it has a lot to do with feeling good about yourself," Roth says...
...floppy disks. But the coupling of the two technologies has been stalled by a kind of Catch-22. Computer owners will not buy the special disk drives required to play CDs on their desktop machines until they know there is something worth playing. And software publishers are reluctant to develop new CD programs until there are enough disk drives in place to justify the investment...
...after wild birds, repairing watches and transistors and, mostly, just meditating. And even toward those who have killed up to 1.2 million of his people and destroyed 6,254 of his monasteries, he remains remarkably forbearing. "As people who practice the Mahayana Buddhist teaching, we pray every day to develop some kind of unlimited altruism," he says. "So there is no point in developing hatred for the Chinese. Rather, we should develop respect for them and love and compassion...
...Dalai Lama spends much of his time reflecting on how Tibetan Buddhism can teach, and learn from, other disciplines. He believes, for example, that Buddhism can show Marxism how to develop a genuine socialist ideal "not through force, but through reason, through a very gentle training of the mind, through the development of altruism." He sees many points of contact between his faith and "psychology, cosmology, neurobiology, the social sciences and physics. There are many things we Buddhists should learn from the latest scientific findings. And scientists can learn from Buddhist explanations. We must conduct research, and then accept...
...leading a Social Studies junior tutorial this semester on race and ethnicity in the U.S., presented a paper to an Afro-American seminar on how to teach sensitive subjects. "Basically," he says, "it was a paper on how to tell the bad news and to try to develop some guidelines...