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Although a requirement for history concentrators as well as a Historical Studies B Core course, History 10a lacks an audience, a theoretical underpinning, and a function. The class presumes to cover well over two thousand years of Western history, scrambling to rush from archaic Greece to late antiquity in one month of lectures, the Middle Ages in another month, and the early modern period in what remains. Its only exciting aspect, that it is co-taught by three specialists, proves not to be enough: lecturers, rather than offering original arguments, simply attempt to give centuries the coverage they deserve. This...
...hard to function after a night of fitful sleep and harder still after forgoing sleep altogether. In a study of medical residents published in J.A.M.A., researchers found that after an overnight shift during a month of 90-hour workweeks, new doctors showed the same deficits on tests of vigilance, attention and driving skills as they did after downing three 12-oz. vodka-and-tonic cocktails during a regular 44-hour-a-week rotation...
...recipes (featuring Kraft ingredients, of course) available to download to your iPod. "The iPod is the next revolution on how to get info on the website into consumer hands," says Ian Smith, Kraft's director of global digital marketing. Kraft's recipe downloads do not use the audio function and take up less than 1 MB of space. Other corporations, such as the Gap, Pepsi and Paper Mate, have given away iPods and free downloads, but this is the first time a consumer packaged-goods company has promoted its wares using a nonaudio application. And recipe downloading is picking...
...folding lines linked by hinges, as in a carpenter's rule, can be unfolded. Demaine helped show it can. Now he's tackling the hottest folding problem of the day: finding the rules that govern how protein molecules twist into the complex shapes that are key to their biological function. Predicting how they do that would help pharmaceutical firms design more effective drugs. --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Matt Smith/New York
...from a memo Rehnquist had written for Jackson in 1952. The memo was titled "A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases," one of which was Brown v. Board of Education, the school-integration case then before the court. The memo noted that "it was not part of the judicial function to thwart public opinion except in extreme cases." And segregation, Rehnquist declared, "quite clearly is not one of those extreme cases ... I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleag[u]es, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right...