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...Georgi tries to maximize this interaction is the Personal Response System (PRS), a method pioneered by Harvard College Professor Eric Mazur which allows students to respond in real time via remote control to multiple choice questions. Georgi said he uses the responses to gauge whether his students understand the day’s material and to track student performance throughout the semester...
...DEVELOPED. A method for raising POISONLESS FUGU, or blowfish; by researchers at Nagasaki University; in Japan. Fugu, which can kill a diner if prepared improperly, is prized as a delicacy. Scientists have found that the fish's toxin can be eliminated by replacing its bottom-feeder diet with one of mackerel and sardines...
...world." And he fought back, transforming himself psychologically. "I realized I was just playing the game with everyone else in a race," he says. "But I needed to be the master of my own strategy, to make it my competition, to make them respond to me." Method became his mantra, steady speed his trademark. "I have to know exactly the effort I'm putting out at 30 km, at 40 km," he explains. Plätzer praises his technique: "He looks exactly the same at 1 km as he does at 50 km. He keeps his rhythm." His training...
...Method and Red" - because when you think hardcore rap, you think wacky suburban comedy! Hip-hop artists Method Man and Redman play themselves, trying to ingratiate themselves with their uptight white neighbors in a suburban gated community...
...Indian Mutiny (1857-1859), for example, British troops resorted to the extraordinary practice of strapping rebels to canons and blowing cannonballs through their chests. This was done because Muslim bodies had to be buried intact for their souls to enter into paradise. By blowing them to smithereens, this method of execution aimed to horrify and deter survivors...