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...once, and then imagine how your child would suffer from your knowledge deficit. For as much as the current wave of education reformers like to maintain that quality teachers and schools can help overcome environmental factors, a child's home life plays an undeniable role in how well they learn, says Mapp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

From the moment we learn that Austerlitz was evacuated to England, the Holocaust haunts almost every page of the novel, but the novel never lapses into hysteria. This is partly attributable to Sebald’s deliberate prose style—described by critic James Wood as “densely agitated”—which renders even the most psychologically disordered states with forensic lucidity: “reason was powerless against the sense of rejection and annihilation which I had always suppressed, and which was now breaking through the walls of its confinement...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Haunting Magnum Opus | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Hoekstra added that they also want to learn which of the changes actually cause the protein to become toxic...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Similar Venom Found in Two Species | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Reimers said that, despite Harvard’s high spot in the ranking, there was much for America to learn from China’s education system, where schools, for instance, have a greater focus on reaching out to the public...

Author: By Damilare K Sonoiki, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Takes First In International Ranking | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...dressed up in months, and there I was, Mr. Important himself, walking across the Columbia campus with an enormous bouquet of flowers in my right hand, on my way to eat and talk business with my publisher.” This first part of the novel, we later learn, is a manuscript mailed to the second narrator: James Freeman, Walker’s college friend. This flourish of ‘infinite regress’ emphasizes Walker’s quest, 40 years later, to find who he was and who he is in paper...

Author: By Hana Bajramovic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Invisible’ Remains Transparent | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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