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...understanding an entire concept. As has been the case in the past, some professors will continue to be reluctant to post their lectures online, or even record them in the first place, fearing that lecture attendance will drop in the absence of any tangible harm from skipping class. Such concerns, however, are misguided. While students’ attendance at lectures is generally more pedagogically beneficial than their watching or listening to a recording, students are aware of the potential harms of choosing to download rather than attend a lecture. Even with the tape rolling, those lectures that provide a genuinely...
...participants would engage in a program of intensive mental stimulation while the rest would carry on as normal. In the meantime, though, why wait? A nightly game of chess may do nothing to thwart dementia. But unlike an experimental drug, there's no risk of its doing any harm, either...
...there, I was asleep - watched me sleep, apparently. Took nothing. Just turned on all of the lights, stayed in my apartment, and broke my lock. That was scary. I thought, is this one of the people I had dated? I don't know who it was. It did no harm, but terrified me. That was pretty scary...
...holdings. “The student body clearly stated that, even if we couldn’t force the University to actively do good on our behalf, at least we can voice our opinion that we don’t want the institutions we are affiliated with to do harm,” said Ronc. “By increasing investments with Sinopec, the University is giving students a big slap in face.” Summers told The Crimson last April that Harvard’s CCSR and Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) would consider divestment from other...
...shirt images. He also fails to place the image of the pigtailed Chinaman in a historical context. It is not only because the T-shirt image is stereotypical that it is offensive to some people, but also because it is reminiscent of racist propaganda that caused substantial harm to Asian-Americans who lived during a less enlightened period in the past. In the absence of an illustration, Bronshtein’s incomplete description of the T-shirts is misleading to readers who have never seen the T-shirts before...