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...wonder there's a catch-up movement afoot, with training being a focal point. "It's a very good area for someone to get into," says Cliff Johnson, director of public affairs for NACE International, an 18,000-member group that helps set standards within the industry. NACE also offers corrosion courses in the U.S. and in more than 80 foreign countries. A more traditional program is in the development stage at Ohio's University of Akron, which is planning to offer the country's first corrosion-engineering bachelor's degree program. Luis Proenza, president of the university, says...
ITHACA, N.Y.—Finishing has been a focal point for Harvard head coach Tim Murphy all season, and, following Saturday’s 32-15 victory at Cornell, it was once again a topic of conversation for the Crimson. That’s because each of Harvard’s first three games were either won or lost because of the team’s ability, or inability, to finish well, and the Week 4 win over the Big Red demonstrated the best and the worst of the Crimson when it comes to closing the door on opponents.For...
...described by 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in a discussion of her most recent book, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History,” at the Harvard Book Store on Tuesday night. In the book, the titular one-liner-cum-maxim serves as a focal point for what Ulrich describes as the “renaissance in historical scholarship that began with the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s” and changing definitions of what it means for a woman to “make history.” FROM...
Player To Watch: Robert Irvin, junior quarterback. Irvin will be the focal point in new coordinator Bill Schmitz’s spread attack...
Still, St. Andrews has become the focal point of a boom in extravagant American-financed developments in Scotland. Seven are in the works, including a $500 million development in Aberdeenshire by Donald Trump, who claims, with characteristic Trumpian restraint, that he will build "the best golf course in the world." He told TIME that his project is not a follower of this trend but rather its cause: "I think I've done a lot to help put Scotland...