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...credit my visualization abilities with helping me understand the animals I work with. One of my early livestock design projects was to create a dip-vat and cattle-handling facility for a feed yard in Arizona. A dip vat is a long, narrow, 7-ft.-deep swimming pool through which cattle move in single file. It is filled with pesticide to rid the animals of ticks, lice and other external parasites. In 1978 dip-vat designs were very poor. The animals often panicked because they were forced into the vat down a steep, slick decline. They would refuse to jump...
...design had a concrete ramp at a 25 [degree] downward angle. Deep grooves in the concrete provided secure footing. The ramp appeared to enter the water gradually, but in reality it abruptly dropped away below the water's surface. The animals could not see the drop-off because the dip chemicals colored the water. When they stepped out over the water, they quietly fell in because their center of gravity had passed the point of no return...
...Harvard has a lot of money and resources at its disposal. This grant was a way to get funding for changes without Harvard having to dip into its own money, but Harvard doesn’t necessarily need outside funding to make these changes,” Levit-Shore said...
...pool of suicide bombers grows, the need for infrastructure diminishes. Recruiters are not much needed when volunteers are abundant. And bomb builders have proved to be replaceable. For example, Israeli forces managed to assassinate a Hamas master bombmaker on Jan. 22. The disruption led to a slight dip in attacks. But the organization's bombmaking expertise bounced back within a couple of months, Israeli security officials concede. "These operations cannot, absolutely cannot, be stopped," says Marzouk. "Nothing, neither policies nor military barricades, can prevent a person who chooses to be a martyr from carrying out his action." That has certainly...
Because a spot on the coach’s list has more sway than even legacy or racial minority, and because athletes’ GPA’s tend to dip a bit lower than the average student’s, Harvard is now poised to change its admission policies regarding athletes. But the answer is hardly to cut them out of the college. Rather, we should examine the not-so-startling results of Shulman and Bowen’s research and ask ourselves why we place so much emphasis on academic performance above all other types of accomplishment...