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...simulates the ideas and the issues that we are facing in the world, and it provides a distinct connection between our normal lives and global issues," said Tom W. Oakley, a sophomore from the United States Military Academy representing Russia...
...distinct possibility of a maid of honor named Sporty...
Each of us has our own concentric circles of roommates, friends, acquaintances and mortal enemies. But lurking around the periphery of people we know, we all have our own distinct set of people who we've never actually spoken to, but who have obviously signed contracts to act as "extras" in our lives. These people come in two types: the 2-D people and the 3-D people...
...known that HIV crossed over to humans from non-human primates," says TIME Medical correspondent Christine Gorman, "What's not yet explained is whether it began in humans as a single, distinct virus or as the family of viruses it is now." The 1959 virus seems to be an ancestor of two modern strains, suggesting that HIV had already infected humans before it began to mutate...
...Departmental classes that should count for Core credit are almost always more meaningful than comparable Core classes. Core course are allegedly distinct from departmental courses in that they teach "major approaches to knowledge," but, even if every Core course succeeded in this project (the fact that not all of them do is another matter), many departmental courses do as well. The result: students are discouraged from taking small departmental lecture courses or seminars that are usually more meaningful and intellectually stimulating than Core courses. And if they go ahead and take concentration classes anyway, they do double duty...