Word: focusing
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...concrete plans had yet been announced. “We are concerned that mounting a new, compressed, short-term set of offerings in January—particularly at a time when resources are highly constrained—would in fact distract from the College’s focus on other more central aspects of the undergraduate experience,” Hammonds and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith wrote in the e-mail to the College community yesterday afternoon. Hammonds said that students hoping to stay on campus during the January Experience period will...
...environmental movement, but it is one that must be changed. Global warming is far too complex to solve with statutory regulations. If the environmental challenges that face the world now are to be successfully addressed, it will require the engagement of a much wider audience and greater focus on education than in the past...
...People cannot—and will not—protect what they do not know or understand. The general lack of understanding is what underlines the importance of changing the focus of the environmental movement. In order to successfully engage these communities, environmentalists can no longer rely upon scientific innovation and legal roadblocks. To actively protect the environment, policy requires engagement from groups outside the traditionally active white suburbanites...
...Literacy Project. Panelist and History of Science professor Steven Shapin, who teaches a class on the “History of Dietetics, noted the “immense popularity of food porn,” attributing the increased interest in ingredient origins to the media’s recent focus on the culinary world. “Fewer people sit down for a meal or cook every day, and thus are concerned about what they are eating when they are not at home, like at restaurants,” he said. At the same time, television shows have made food...
...addition to The Globe’s quality reporting, the paper fills an essential niche of focused local reporting and creates a level of local scrutiny and accountability that cannot be matched by papers with a national focus. Furthermore, a distinct New England newspaper lends a crucial cognizance of Boston’s history and context that a simple New England section on The New York Times website, for instance, never could. A nationalized media source would be unable to provide the same good as The Boston Globe...