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...cash and knowledge, who evade regulation and supervision to open one Pandora's Box after another, always with fatal consequences. In his world-view the raw chaos and complexity of nature always lead to unforeseen consequences. "Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise," Crichton wrote in Travels, "a method for taking measurements that describe something - reality - that may not be understood...
...applying the case method, long associated with business school instruction, to public health, Bloom and his faculty hoped to foster a culture that emphasized interactive problem solving over rote memorization...
...Since most of the School of Public Health faculty had never taught—or even studied—under the case-based method, several instructors teaching case-based courses this term attended a week-long crash course at Harvard Business School over the summer that was meant to introduce them to participatory teaching...
...Decker, who has always taught lecture courses, said that though the textbook method teaches students to analyze cases under ideal conditions, the alternative allows students to tackle problems with the complications of real-life situations...
...that had adopted the device since its mass production in 1892 had returned them by 1929, calling them too complicated, too expensive and too difficult to keep in working order. In the early 1960s, University of California at Berkley professor Joseph Harris suggested applying to ballots the punch-card method used by early computers - setting the stage for the hanging chad controversy of the 2000 elections. The '60s also saw the introduction of the optical-scan ballot, which borrowed IBM technology traditionally used to score standardized tests like...