Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state medical board recently dismissed all charges against two physicians for their conduct during research of an eye drug at a Harvard- affiliated hospital...
...disclosure of the doctors' investment in Spectra Pharmaceuticals, the company which sponsored research of the eye medication, sparked a controversy two year ago which resulted in a change in Harvard's conflict of interest policy...
...merging from fissures in their surface -- an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers aesthetic," as someone remarked at the time. Its payoff would come 20 years later, with pieces like Big Load, 1988, and Stamp of the Past, 1989, ceramic chunks like blotched meteorites, with sharply cut surfaces of an eye-straining chrome yellow in which a perfectly square black hole opens on the mysterious emptiness inside...
Sometime around the seventh grade, many American students are introduced to the tale of 10 blind men inspecting an elephant. When each blind man reaches different conclusions about the creature, the students are invited to consider whether truth is absolute or lies in the eye of the beholder. College professors and administrators might want to remember that fable when they take the measure of American higher education. Many of them, who tend to see only what they stand to lose, perceive the beast as wounded, suffering from the shocks of rising costs, dwindling resources and life-draining cutbacks. But foreigners...
...says Rosenzweig. With the exception of Britain, where much of the teaching takes place in one-on-one tutorials, European students rarely come into direct contact with professors until they reach graduate-level studies. Even lectures are optional in Europe, since students are graded solely on examinations, with no eye to class attendance or participation. In Japan students are expected to ingest their professors' teachings so passively that it is possible for a student to graduate without ever opening his mouth...