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...expansion of the faculty naturally bodes well for the student-faculty ratio. A student-faculty ratio is no mere number, but an expression of the intellectual life of the institution. Regardless of the advantages of large lecture courses taught by distinguished professors, the steadily decreasing ratio gives each student the opportunity to meet professors, cultivate deeper relationships with them and find the academic niche that he or she finds most inspiring. The more professors there are, the more likely a student is to find a professor whom he or she believes to have profound insights, meaningful suggestions and pertinent methods...
...course, even as a mere number the student-faculty ratio has its uses. The number is not only symbolic of an attitude towards teaching. It is also a significant indicator that potential applicants use to gauge the educational atmosphere of the country’s top schools as they shop for an alma mater. That a decreasing ratio will make Harvard more competitive with its peer institutions is not to be scoffed...
...Nguyen Binh Khiem street. Che are sweet desserts made from various combinations of fruit, beans, tapioca, sugar and sweetened coconut milk, and are hugely popular in the south of Vietnam. At this stall you'll find a refreshing che dau van (made with haricot beans) for a mere $0.05. Then drive it home with a digestif of rau ma (liquified pennywort), available from the Ben Thanh market food hall for just $0.25. That brings your three-course meal with drink to a whopping $0.90. What was that about never leaving your credit card at home...
...second piece, “Interlude,” elaborates on mere movement by focusing on the contact between dancers. Three actresses in primary colors stride purposefully across the stage; when they collide, their reactions become exaggerated and often change the trajectory of each across the stage...
...place. "I could see it wasn't spaghetti. I said, 'Oh my God, we've got structure!'" Thus was born a protein-creation process that Dahiyat calls Protein Design Automation (PDA) and that became the foundation of Xencor. PDA no longer requires supercomputing power but can run on a mere PC. Dahiyat's team is now applying their techniques to other therapeutic drugs that they hope will boost the human immune system...