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...People will leave the course being seriously addicted to this stuff," says Robert D. Levin, the course's instructor and Robinson professor of the humanities. "They will have a sense of when jazz advanced from something at research centers and became the national popular music...
...delighted with my class--it was larger than we expected and there was a wide range of backgrounds," says Benedict H. Gross, Leverett professor of mathematics and instructor for QR 28: "The Magic of Numbers...
...Lily Chin, who travels the U.S. as a knitting instructor, the craft goes deeper than fashion and fame. "The U.S. is the hardest-working country in the world," says Chin, 38. "We need the downtime, and knitting has been scientifically proved to be a stress reducer." Since she began giving lessons in 1991, Chin has had a dramatic drop in the average age of her students. Why? Gloria Steinem had her day, but now Martha Stewart says it's O.K.--even empowering--to nest. "Sometimes I can work 12 hours a day and not accomplish much," explains Yassy Okamoto...
...that, as the nation would learn several years later, is how a young English instructor at Columbia University named Charles Van Doren defeated a C.C.N.Y. graduate student named Herb Stempel and became the reigning Twenty-One champion for 14 weeks, ultimately winning $129,000. Van Doren became so famous and popular that when he finally lost his title, NBC gave him a $50,000 annual contract and a spot on its Today show. For a while, at least, America fell in love with an egghead, until the country learned he had been coddled...
...addition to building a student center and offering more social activities, the department has recently employed a private psychiatrist, Edward M. Hallowell, clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), to give chemistry graduate students both practical and emotional advice...