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J.P.L. is doing what it can to fix that problem, filling the mentoring hole by compiling painstaking lists of design principles--lessons learned when particular engineering techniques either did or didn't work. That system should serve in a pinch, but the lab is determined never to let the teaching system lapse again. "Mentoring is something we've been doing ad hoc for years," Manning says. "That's allowed us to collectively grow...
...surface-bound vehicles could separate from their delivery craft. Rules require that power be shut down before the cables are cut in order to prevent a short, but there was insufficient space inside the ship for all the electrical relays to do that job. Manning's team designed a fix that he thought would sidestep the problem, but when he tried it out in tests, it failed--as the people who drafted the design principle had predicted. "People came back to me and said, 'Look, this really is a rule,'" Manning recalls. It's not one he ever broke again...
Make no mistake about it: Hurricane Katrina didn't destroy New Orleans; the breaches in the levees did. Maybe it's time the U.S. government spent its money on what is broken in our own country rather than trying to fix things in other nations far away...
...stands, the College is going to fix the Core at some point, though it isn’t exactly clear when. The Curricular Review Process has been long, and, considering the resources and energy dedicated to it, unexpectedly fruitless. The “Red Book”—which spawned the legendary General Education program—was begun at the outset of World War II and was completed in 1945, and it had long-lasting effects on higher education the world over. The Core Curriculum began development in 1974, and was adopted by the Faculty...
...excluded from current prominent public spaces, such as the final clubs system. This would give all undergraduates more social options. Advocates are, however, realistic: the Women’s Center was always intended to be just one facet of the response to the need for social space, not a fix-all. After all, how could one college-controlled space compete with 12 million-dollar-plus mansions...