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...GEN ED, WHERE ART THOU...
...Faculty grapples with the financial crisis, the imminent implementation of General Education may be the last thing on some professors’ minds. But Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds issued a plea for more professors to develop new Gen Ed courses—especially in the sciences and social sciences, where she said there are “very few courses: almost nothing...
...Visiting professors often patch up a department’s curricular weaknesses, and their relative absence will likely deplete the College’s course offerings for undergraduates. Given the comparative lack of faculty, students will be faced with the dismaying prospect of fewer seminars and bigger Core and Gen Ed classes next year...
Amazon today unveiled Kindle 2, the next iteration of its pioneering e-reader. While fans clamoring for a radical overhaul will doubtless be disappointed - the first-gen Kindle was awkwardly designed and limited by its black-type-on-gray E-Ink display - Amazon has given the device a modest redesign that appears to address some of its more glaring problems. (See the top 10 gadgets...
...move these days. U.S. forces in the province watched the situation warily, wondering whether the relative calm Iraq has known for roughly the last year would unravel in a matter of days or even hours. "The levels of violence can spike out of - almost out of control," said Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the U.S. ground commander in Iraq. "We have to be mindful of that...