Word: evens
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...excitement with the subject matter. TF's and CA's at Harvard almost always know their subject thoroughly and are talented thinkers, but a student is just as likely to have one skilled in teaching as having an incoherent one, so that it seems that teaching ability is not even a criteria in selecting section leaders...
These problems may be even worse in upper-level courses--the courses that potential science stars take in their first year. It seems that there are even fewer quality teachers and interested professors in the higher level first-year courses and that the departments may be banking on the students' own interest to keep them learning and involved in the subject. Such an attitude would not be helpful when so many potential concentrators are dropping out. Indeed, many of the people I know who are science majors are in their science in spite of their experience with the department...
...Cruzan case dramatically evokes many of the primal emotions and fundamental uncertainties of life, death and love. Even the simple question at the heart of the Cruzan case -- who is to decide on ending a life -- defies an easy answer. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled last year that the state must decide. And in Cruzan's case, the court concluded, the state's interest in preserving life was not offset by any clear or convincing evidence of Nancy Cruzan's own wishes or by any demonstration that the feeding tube was "heroically invasive" or burdensome. "We choose...
Cases that involve the withdrawal of a feeding tube, as opposed to a respirator or heavy mechanical support, pose particular problems. The American Medical Association and many ethicists believe even artificial nutrition and hydration is a medical treatment that may be withdrawn from terminally ill or irreversibly comatose patients. But others disagree; to them, food and water, even through a tube, represents the necessities of life and constitutes basic care. Some experts also debate whether there is a clear or a blurred line between withholding nourishment and the next step, injecting death-inducing drugs. Many worry about a slippery slope...
...issues in the Cruzan case are ultimately both profound and perplexing. "If only the ambulance had arrived five minutes earlier," muses Joe Cruzan, "or five minutes later." But even as he muses, and as the Supreme Court ponders, other ambulances are reaching other patients at that same fateful juncture of too late and too soon...