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...vast majority of the teaching load in Social Studies is placed on visiting professors, lecturers, and junior faculty who have joint appointments with other departments...
...Crimson article, professors in the biology and chemistry departments believed that making the Biochemical Sciences concentration honors only would promote a more profound understanding of the subjects. Fifty years ago, the non-honors track in Biochemical Sciences included six full courses, whereas the honors concentration track required an additional load of three advanced half courses, a thesis, and examinations at the end of senior year. Non-honors concentrators didn’t delve into the advanced levels of this field since their coursework was very introductory in nature, Thimann told The Crimson in 1956. They...
...Kuwait, and the latest word from their mom or dad. Everyone--children, wives, husbands, parents--keeps cell phones on at all times and answers them without apology, for fear of missing a call someone stood in line for five hours to make. They go to the post store to load up on toilet paper and Twinkies and other survival gear to ship over. Ten-year-olds talk about the status of negotiations with Turkey. Five-year-olds say the prayers of soldiers' families: "Dear God, please protect my dad, and don't let the bad guys kill...
...says Larry Daily, president of Alter Barge Lines. "It's like you've clogged the pipeline for a week." Archer Daniels Midland, a major grain exporter, operates four grain terminals in Louisiana. Several hundred of its barges are stranded in the lower Mississippi, some grounded and waiting to off-load. The firm is studying rail alternatives and considering diverting some shipments to Galveston, Texas...
...without being contrived, which means that even their most idiosyncratic twists and turns can be traced to some engineering or environmental requirement. So the stainless-steel diagrid of the Hearst Tower is not just jazzy but also purposeful. Triangles are more stable than rectangles. "A triangular structure has more 'load paths,'" Foster explains, using the engineer's term for the lines along which a framework carries a building's weight. "So if you take away some of that structure, the loads redistribute themselves." That's another way of saying that if a terrorist truck bomb were to blow away part...