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...more technical courses where a single detail can be the key to understanding an entire concept. As has been the case in the past, some professors will continue to be reluctant to post their lectures online, or even record them in the first place, fearing that lecture attendance will drop in the absence of any tangible harm from skipping class. Such concerns, however, are misguided. While students’ attendance at lectures is generally more pedagogically beneficial than their watching or listening to a recording, students are aware of the potential harms of choosing to download rather than attend...
...when it became clear that Congress opposed the MLF program, Johnson simply let it drop. Unlike Eisenhower, Yoo claimed, Johnson was not an internationalist at heart...
Harvard has now lost three straight games to drop to fifth place in the Ivy League...The Quakers shot 56.4 percent from the floor in the contest, including a scalding 18-of-29 in the second half...The Crimson has now dropped the last four games to Penn at home by an average of nearly 16 points...
Furthermore, the women in the intervention group had 9% fewer polyps and other precancerous growths in their lower gastrointestinal tract. Given that it takes a decade or more for colorectal cancer to develop, it may be too soon to see if there's a corresponding drop in cancer rates. Also, the women increased their average consumption of fruits and vegetables only slightly, from four to five servings a day. "Maybe if we had gotten up to seven or so, on average, we would have been in a better place," says Shirley Beresford, a study leader and an epidemiologist...
...always possible that Thaksin could call fresh elections and seek a new mandate. Indeed, in a Feb. 9 speech to the National Economic Social Advisory Council, he sounded as if he were campaigning: "My policies have made the economy grow, I have made drug offenses drop," he said, "and I will eradicate poverty within the next three years." And if he did call a snap election, Thaksin is assured of at least one vote. Back in At Samart, Grandma Ouan tells a reporter that the cow Thaksin promised still hasn't showed up. As if on cue, a motorcycle roars...