Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Giant lecture classes foster disillusionment-students soon convince themselves that Harvard's big name professors are largely just big names. But Harvard professors--from the most junior faculty to the likes of Cornel West--are very open to talking with students. Faculty holds office hours at least once a week, and these hour-long sessions are an ideal time to dish with a favorite professor about class, college and life in general. Just think of a perfunctory question to ask and head on down...
...foster programmatic and curricular interactions between the new Institute's participants and the University community...
...those women who do have healthy deliveries, forced separation usually comes within 72 hours after birth. Mothers endure the pain of seeing their children taken to foster care and fear the very real possibility of permanently losing custody. Even though maintaining family ties is one of the most important factors in ensuring women are not rearrested, prisons make visits difficult with humiliating strip searches for visitors and great distances from urban areas...
...course, do a building that's eco-responsible but aesthetically worthless. The crux of Foster's achievement is to have designed megastructures that are at the forefront of eco-design as well as beautiful in their own right. He is a fine detailer--everything from the junctures of a beam to the cladding to the door handles comes out of the same relentless aesthetic concentration. But on the wider scale, Foster is also one of the great living manipulators of light and transparency. No other government building in the world, for instance, can boast anything as outright exhilarating...
Light is part of the very subject matter of Foster's buildings, along with steel, glass and stone. When Foster speaks of "the spiritual dimension" of architecture, and its power to "lift the spirit," he's talking about the action of light in space. Anyone who supposes that technology, or the exacting use of modern materials, implies a break with the past should look at Foster's work--and learn...