Word: dewitte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communicate her sense of excitement, Nash uses bold metaphorical leaps and descriptive passages that can bring to life a half-billion-year-old fossil ("plump Aysheaia," she writes, "prancing on caterpillar-like legs"). These gifts, says senior editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, make Nash "a national treasure--one of the few who can see the cutting edge of science, report it deeply, and then write about it with grace and style...
Still, Anthony L. DeWitt '96, a teaching fellow this semester for Computer Science 141: "Computing Hardware," says the material he works with is fairly objective...
...DeWitt says the use of undergraduate teaching fellows should be accompanied by a system of checks and balances...
...have had instances where an undergraduate TF graded an assignment of mine in a way I though to be unfair," DeWitt says. "But when I asked another TF or the professor to check over the work, they were happy to do so and get back to me. I can live with this...
...Elmer-DeWitt's reputation for clear and accurate discussions of complex topics that led an interdisciplinary group of researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University to offer their study of online porn first to Time. "Like most people on the Net," Elmer-DeWitt says, "I knew this stuff was out there. But I hadn't realized how much of it there was--I had never even heard of most of those '-philias' [sexual preferences]. I am a staunch believer in free speech, but some of what people are looking at is very disturbing." The scientists who conducted the study were convinced that...