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...well versed in the material that she presents us, definitely always on top of her game and always challenging us and encouraging us to look at things from a different perspective and understand different views of a culture. I can definitely see her being tenured in the not too distant future.” Another one of her students, Chemistry concentrator Xun Zhou ’10, who decided to take the junior tutorial in African and African American Studies after being inspired by Fullwiley’s hands on teaching tactics, echoes Branches sentiments. “She?...
...caught up with contemporary Chinese art and film that the 1980s seem so distant,” Wang says. “I want to resurrect this era because in terms of what Chinese youngsters remember, it is a distant past...
...paper is failing, and Cameron is caught in the conflict between traditional journalism and new technology—a conflict embodied in Della, a blogger, and Cal, an established field reporter. While it bemoans the current crisis in print media, the movie also hearkens back to a not-so-distant past when investigative journalism had the power to change politics. It is a view that is at once sentimental, nostalgic, and not entirely unproblematic. However, it really doesn’t matter much in the context of the movie as a whole. “State of Play?...
...Unfortunately, to even the most ambitious of NASA's future telescopes, a distant exoplanet would be visible only as a tiny speck of light. We could never hope to see an alien landscape in detail - but perhaps we could see the speck brighten and dim as it rotated, the light of its sun reflecting off water and land...
...each evening, Langford watched the earthshine brighten dramatically when sunlight bounced off the Indian Ocean and dim as the African continent rotated into view. The implications for the exoplanet search are profound: If we can see the effect in earthshine, we might also see it in the light of distant world...