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...necessary.“The field of genetics is changing so fast,” said professor of biology Daniel L. Hartl, who assigns his book “Essential Genetics” for the introductory science course he co-teaches. “Pick up the newspaper everyday, and you’ll see something new,” Hartl said. “If you pick up the scientific literature, it’s changing even faster.”‘THE BEST WAY I KNOW’Most professors teach their own books because...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama and Benjamin M. Jaffe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Professors Find Differents Uses for Textbook Profits | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

...could make people feel “better than well!”—dozens of writers, doctor and layperson alike, have jumped on the “overmedication” bandwagon. Americans, they declare, have been duped by pharmaceutical companies and doctors into believing that the everyday downs and disappointments that come with being human are not only undesirable, but unhealthy and altogether avoidable. They seem to imagine that doctors across the country encourage even the healthiest of patients to pop a pill to cure all ills and become perpetually euphoric...

Author: By Emily R. Kaplan | Title: An Ignorant Argument | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...reputation you embrace or reject?AT: I don’t sit down and think, “Let me invent some story that’s gonna put people in a bad mood”...I’m trying to depict the range of experience in everyday life, so sometimes there’s humor and happiness, and sometimes there’s struggle.THC: You emerged from the underground comic scene and have your own devoted group of readers but also are among the few who have been accepted into the main stream. Do you feel any conflict...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tomine Gets Serious About Comic Art | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...under Castro suffered due to its emphasis on indoctrination. A student is not given the opportunity to explore varied educational interests. Students are taught Marx, but not Smith; Lenin, but not Locke; Guevara, but not Jefferson. Education in Cuba is merely another instrument for the government to intrude into everyday life, manage opinions, and disarm the intellectual from opposing the government...

Author: By Daniel Balmori and Andrew Velo-arias | Title: Castro: A Legacy of Myths | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...death did, however, untether Ballard's writing from the outer space of conventional science fiction. Instead, he began to explore the "inner space" of everyday culture that was being shaped by consumerism, T.V., sex and celebrity - most of it American. The psychotic hero of his provocative, experimental novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) stumbles through chapters like Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. and You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe. The character's own sense of reality seems to crumble along with the last vestiges of novelistic realism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.G. Ballard: The Emperor of Shepperton | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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