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...still alive and well. “There’s nowhere we won’t go to make Judaism acceptable,” he says. “We try to come to [Jewish students].” Chabad’s method of making its presence known was a draw for faculty adviser Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz. “I very much like their proselytizing tactics, as a First Amendment advocate,” Dershowitz wrote in a 2003 book about Chabad, “The Rebbe’s Army...
...secretary of the HSS, Matthew T. Valente ’08, grew up in a Catholic household. Church was a weekly ritual, but in high school, as the story goes, he started challenging his beliefs. “I started really buying into the scientific method,” says Valente, appropriately enough a mechanical and material science and engineering concentrator. “I was agnostic for a while, and probably by the end of high school, I was an atheist or humanist.”Valente laughs about the semantics involved in defining his beliefs?...
However, Bok argues that the sluggishness of colleges’ progress is a problem of method, not of intention. Faculty are not apathetic or lazy, he writes, only ignorant of research identifying active teaching methods as superior to the old-fashioned lecture. He writes that “faculties seem inclined to use research and experimentation to understand and improve every institution, process and human activity except their...
...said, explaining that astoundingly small amounts of exercise can have enormous benefits. Simon’s research found that walking just eight extra flights of stairs a day decreased death rates by 33 percent. In the book, Simon sets up a points system, similar to the Weight Watchers method, which assigns different point values for everyday activities. According to this system, everyone should aim for 150 points a day for maximum health—which can be achieved by half an hour of heavy cleaning or cooking for 75 minutes. The book also notes that 15 minutes...
...better word for people who work in slaughterhouses) are allowed to subject animals to, there should be a legal limit to how much pain a doctor is allowed to inflict on a fetus. Section 2 of the Humane Slaughter Act, used to protect animals, states that a method of slaughter is deemed legally humane only if “all animals are rendered insensible to pain by a single blow or gunshot or an electrical chemical, or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast or cut.” While the laws...