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...syllabus itself recalls the campus events that influenced the new course: the third assignment, worth 20 percent of the final grade, is a “10-page Memorandum to a fictitious university president about what, in the student’s opinion, the main problem in the area of women and science is and how it might be remedied...
...this point, I could only imagine that something had happened—perhaps something personal, some sort of family crisis—and I certainly didn’t want to harass him if that was the case. Moreover, I was certain that when he made up my grade he would take into consideration that I hadn’t been able to submit a final draft of my paper, since it was he who had failed to send me the comments on it, without which we had both agreed the exercise would be essentially useless...
...When grades came out, I found a strange symbol where my tutorial grade should have appeared. “Grade not yet submitted,” according to the key. It was at this point that I started to get a little concerned. Weeks passed—no grade. I contacted my department, worried that not having the grade might affect my academic standing somehow. I was assured that it would not, which temporarily allayed my fears, if not my curiosity. As fall semester approached (and began) however, this curiosity took a turn towards skepticism. If my grade had already...
...nuclear energy program, which is why it has systematically hidden many suspect activities. The Europeans have spearheaded a diplomatic effort to broker a deal in which Iran would voluntarily refrain from nuclear fuel-cycle activities permitted by the NPT but which could be easily converted to production of weapons-grade material, in exchange for economic and political concessions. But that deal has broken down as the Iranians defiantly insist on their right to engage in all activities permitted by the NPT, which why the U.S. and Europe are now pressing for action by the IAEA...
...million Value of high-grade counterfeit $100 bills, believed to have been printed in North Korea, confiscated in the U.S. and Taiwan...