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Catholic educators are proud that their institutions eschew the shopping- mall approach they see in public high schools, where students shop around for courses among endless electives. Their high schools routinely offer fewer electives and require a heavier load of basics than do inner-city public schools: four years of English; three years or more of math; three years of science, foreign language and social science; and at least one year of computer science. Students must show proficiency in a course before they can move up a grade. Period...
...years ago the English Department voted to decrease faculty members' course load to three courses a year. The rest of their time was to be spent on tutorial, one professor said...
...fact, Bok says, between the usual spring-time load of meetings to attend and faculty positions to fill, not to mention the host of dinners and receptions being held in his honor, he is "booked to the hilt through graduation...
Proponents claim that the MHTGR (one type of which is shown here) is nearly idiot-proof. The key is to load a new form of nuclear fuel capable of withstanding very high temperatures -- up to 3,300 degrees F (1,800 degrees C) -- into reactor vessels so small that they cannot hold enough fuel to produce such temperatures. The fuel consists of tiny grains of enriched uranium that are coated in ceramic and embedded in billiard ball-size "pebbles" of graphite. The reactor needs no safety cooling system; helium gas flowing through the core simply carries away heat to power...
Kennedy is a hardworking and successful U.S. Senator with a busy schedule and a heavy load of intellectual labor that he apparently performs well. His mind is nimble and sharp, except when he has been drinking a lot. He is attentive to his enormous family and a considerable array of friends...