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...only senior fielder. While Madick is the elected captain, Watkins and Kerper will have to step up and fill leadership roles as well. In addition to playing first, Kerper will be, in some respects, the field general. In the early part of the season that has meant helping instruct the freshmen at second.Meanwhile, pitchers Madick and Watkins will have to provide leadership in different ways. Watkins stresses the importance of providing moral support from the sideline, something that Allard believes she already does very well.“Amanda is a real positive leader,” Allard says...
...Dalai Lama is the rare religious figure who tells people not to get needlessly confused or distracted by religion ("Even without a religion, we can become a good human being"). No believer in absolute truth-he eagerly seeks out Catholics, neuroscientists, even regular travelers to Tibet who can instruct him-he is also the rare Tibetan who will suggest that old Tibet may have contributed in part to its current predicament, the rare Buddhist to tell foreigners not to take up Buddhism but to study within their own traditions, where their roots are deepest...
Once inside Iran, U.S. officials say, Iraqi volunteers hone skills needed to use armor-piercing roadside bombs, mortars and rockets against targets in Iraq. U.S. officials say, in addition, that Quds Force trainers, working at times apparently with experienced instructors from the Lebanese militia Hizballah, also instruct Iraqi recruits in intelligence techniques, sniper shooting and kidnapping operations before transporting them back across the border. Once in Iraq again, militants who have undergone Iranian training reportedly form cells that U.S. officials now refer to as "special groups." These cells, say U.S. officials, continue to receive funds, weapons and direction from...
...Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric will provide students with instruction and opportunities similar to those given by Harvard’s Expos Program and Writing Center but will exceed the University’s current efforts to instruct students in rhetoric...
...will succeed - or if he does, that it will matter much. Corporate giants like DuPont already put synthetic biology to industrial use. In the company's Loudon, Tenn., plant, for example, billions of E. coli bacteria stew inside massive tanks. The bacteria's genomes contain 23 alterations that instruct it to digest sugar from corn and produce propane diol, a polyester used in carpets, clothing and plastics. The hard-working bugs churn out 100 million lbs. (45 million kg) of the stuff each day, and all it took was a little tinkering with their genomes, not the construction...