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...corn tortilla products per day find themselves in the greatest risk bracket for passing neural-tube defects to their offspring. Researchers found that women with NTD-positive children ate more tortillas on average during their pregnancy than those who did not. Suarez defended the study’s method of asking women to recall the quantity of tortillas consumed over the past year, claiming the margin of error due to inaccurate memory was approximately the same for mothers of NTD-positive children as for mothers in the control group. When asked what effect this study might have on the consumption...
...born, we don’t know where we are. We find ourselves in the locations of shape, form, knowledge, art,” says Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Tom Conley. Such creatively provocative statements characterize Conley’s artistic and critical method: he examines the world through unexpected lenses, bringing forth questions and meanings that might otherwise remain undiscovered. Born in New Haven, Conn., and raised by parents who did not attend college, Conley never expected to find himself at Harvard as a professor and co-master of Kirkland House. After studying at Lawrence...
...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...