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With those two books out of the picture, the next step is easy. Disregard the "workload" or "difficulty" of a class. Use the course catalog to narrow classes into two genera relative to you: interesting (very small) and uninteresting (very large). Next, take the first genus and divide it into two species: difficult and easy. Now, start making calculated decisions about how much you want to read and write this semester. The worst mistake you can make during shopping period is to enroll in an uninteresting class because you've read or heard that...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: A Message From Your Personal Shopper | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...says Conway Morris, is how familiar so many of these animals seem. For it was during the Cambrian (and perhaps only during the Cambrian) that nature invented the animal body plans that define the broad biological groupings known as phyla, which encompass everything from classes and orders to families, genera and species. For example, the chordate phylum includes mammals, birds and fish. The class Mammalia, in turn, covers the primate order, the hominid family, the genus Homo and our own species, Homo sapiens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Exploded | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Harvard Yearbook, Business Manager; Harvard World Model United Nations, Director Genera; The Harvard Crimson, Circulation Manager; Asian American Association, Educational/Cultural Chair; Korean Students Association, Social Chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1995 CANDIDATES FOR HARVARD & RADCLIFE CLASS MARSHALS | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

...museum houses vast collections. The mammals department has 85 percent of all mammal genera, according to Maria E. Rutzmoser, acting director of the mammal collection. "You have certain masterpieces of art as part of a national treasure and this is a planetary treasure," she says...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: MCZ Treasures | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

Brinkley, for example, writes in Harper's that McCloy "had not initiated the relocation plan, and he was not a major factor in the decision to implement it." Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson strongly supported the proposal, as did the West Coast military command and California Attorney Genera Earl Warren, he notes...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Honorable or Criminal? | 4/30/1983 | See Source »

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