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...proliferation of large science lectures is unfortunate, says biology professor Richard M. Losick, not just because students are driven away from the concentrations, but also because large introductory courses fail to provide students with a real taste of science. [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW...
...visiting residents of towns that had been without power for more than 10 days. "This is very important, to allow Chinese people to have a good time at Chinese New Year," says Joseph Cheng, who heads the Contemporary China Research Project at City University of Hong Kong. Leaders who fail on that count, he says, "the people judge very harshly...
...they'll remain disappointed as long as the interim government's leaders fail to forge any meaningful political unity. "It's a testing time for them," says Acharya, the former ambassador to the U.N. "One wonders if they'll prove their statesmanship." The only indication that they will, most observers drily point out, is that neither the Maoists nor the Congress Party have any better alternative other than sorting out their differences and calming the many fractious forces that might undermine April's polls...
...death of Bhutto and subsequent events should serve as yet more reminders that Muslim countries such as Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran are not ready for democracy. Despite all the patriotic, spread-the-good-news rhetoric, what the Bush Administration and others fail to recognize is that democracy must come from within the heart of the people, and Islamic societies are ill-prepared for democracy. Charles Osteen, North Platte...
...were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him-it's the American way. That is, until the little guy gets to the top, and then we can't wait to see him fail. [Laughs...