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...rest of the industry’s circulation dives, both hometown readership and stock plunging like the Andrea Doria (which she remembers). Yes, she’s gussied herself up for the kids online, but it’s not the same; video just feels wrong. Her pride is intact, to be sure, with most of her reputation, but we’re dealing with a lady who has seen better days—and she knows...
...carry this logic to its extreme, and install the whim of students as the arbiter of course instruction, is manifestly imprudent.The perspective that puts students and masters on the same intellectual plane distorts the proper order of education.Traditionally the purpose of university is to maintain and pass on intact to rising generations the vast treasury of knowledge that our civilization has acquired over the centuries. That we have a canon and classics—although their content may be disputed—testifies to the existence, if often overlooked, of this traditional purpose. English majors read Shakespeare and not Rowling...
...astonishing one out of three unemployed Britons planned to vote Tory. Many workers greatly appreciated her feat in bringing the inflation rate down from a high of 22% in 1980 to the current 4%. In addition, Britain's generous array of unemployment benefits, which Thatcher has left largely intact, has blunted the anger of many without jobs...
IdentiGEN's traceback system starts with a small DNA sample taken from an animal carcass while it is still intact. The sample is stored in a computer database, and from that point on, at any step in the distribution process, another sample can be taken from any product to confirm its origins. The entire process costs one half of 1% of the value of the animal, according to Cunningham. If cloned-animal DNA were made publicly available (cloners now keep DNA information proprietary), Cunningham says he could trace a single steak back to an individual cloned steer in less than...
...Iraq war, afflicting up to 250,000 troops. It nearly doubles the chance of developing PTSD, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine. While severe TBI cases are easily identified by bloodied and broken craniums, disorders in which brains are rattled inside intact skulls by IEDS (improvised explosive devices) are harder, and sometimes impossible, to diagnose...