Word: focused
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Sometime during his vacation in Guatemala this week, Staff Writer Michael Lemonick will unpack his amateur astronomer's 4-in. reflecting telescope, set it on its tripod and focus low on the southern horizon. His target: the pinprick of light from Supernova 1987A, the exploding star that is the subject of his cover story in this week's issue. Lemonick, who lives in Princeton, N.J., has made a hobby of stargazing for the past two years. "I usually set up the telescope in my backyard, but Princeton is just too far north to see 1987A. If you travel...
More than 200 students at the University of Michigan yesterday ended a 24-hour blockade of an administration building. The protest was intended to focus attention on the prejudice that Blacks and other minority students face on the Ann Arbor campus...
...lift at the gym and was on his way home to a pasta dinner. I decided that if he could do it, I certainly could. I stepped up after him and chose a psychic reader named Steve from a collage of hand-drawn posters advertising each reader's special focus...
There are in this world wise men and fools, humorous men and bores. And Harvard's faculty has representatives of each. But there are no men who possess the magical "teaching ability" that is the focus of the tenure debate...
Lerner's objections focus on the central course of the Women's Studies concentration, "Classics of Feminist Theory." The only works classic to Lerner are those written by Western men. If by classical what Lerner means is those works traditionally studied by white men in Europe and in the United States, he is right. Until recently, texts written by women have not been studied in those communities, nor has the work of the majority of the world's population. It is a significant step that universities in the United States are beginning to recognize the limits of their traditional range...