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...number two at the University, he wasn’t the "outside the box" choice the committee wanted. Plus, over the course of Fineberg's long history at Harvard, he had attracted his share of internal enemies. The Harvard Alumni Association, for example, objected that Fineberg was a micro-manager. Nevertheless, as the strongest internal candidate, Fineberg had staying power...
...Lieber group has been able to control the arrangement of the wires on a surface using what the researchers call a "micro-fluidic channel...
...these alternatives gets tough on schools—at least not in any effective way. In brief, school testing can signal that there is a problem in a school, but does very little to identify the problem or come up with useful, appropriate solutions. Annual school testing is micro-management without any given direction: Big Brother watching but not giving any useful advice...
...real: "There is this whole spiritual existence out there and I can't get there." Her questions, however, are a cockeyed amalgam of Me-generation nostrums: "WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO? HOW MANY BOOKS? HOW MANY JOURNEYS? WHAT ARE THE WORDS AND WHAT KIND OF FOOD? MACRO? MICRO? DO ROOTS FEED THE SOUL? CARROTS, TURNIPS, POTATOES? OR THE ANCIENT SONGS...
...China is more a civilization than a country, and to attain an overview requires rising to a great altitude. Hessler mostly stays low, but his micro-view of life in Fuling brings the people alive, in all their diversity, down to the mystified farmer still wondering about rice seedlings' dropping from an AAir China...