Word: midterms
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...past years, all classes approved for Core credit were required to have midterm and final exams. The requirements for Core credit were loosened in the 2006-2007 academic year, allowing for a broader array of classes to count...
...opinion that you always have a choice. Chicken or fish. Yankees or Red Sox. Studying for an Ec midterm or playing Super Smash Brothers. But for me, one choice stands above all the rest: to rush or not to rush, that is the question. Did you know Shakespeare was one of the first men in history to rush the field after a rousing victory? I’m pretty sure it’s true! For this singular act—charging the field after a thrilling triumph—is one of sports’ greatest moments...
...fight over stem cells in a war full of cautionary tales. Most Democrats, and some Republicans, have pushed for full federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research, an issue so hot it tipped some close 2006 midterm races. But since then, the biggest breakthroughs have come in techniques that do not use embryos at all but instead reprogram adult cells. Do proponents look reckless for putting all their emphasis on embryos, which even some prominent scientists find morally troubling? Or prescient, because the basic knowledge gleaned from embryo research is what may help make it unnecessary someday...
Don’t let the warmish weather and bright smiles of reacquainted friends fool you: school is back in session here in Cambridge and before you know it you’ll be smacking icicles off your Midterm Beard as you look up Seasonal Affective Disorder on WebMD...
...post-9/11 political emergence of the so-called security mom - a term, interestingly enough, coined by Joe Biden, the man who is now Obama's running mate. But where 55% of white women voted for Bush in 2004, only 50% voted for Republican candidates in the 2006 midterm elections, which was one of the reasons the party lost both houses of Congress. And as much as Palin pleases the conservative base of the party, white women were the real target audience McCain was aiming at with his surprise pick of the Alaska governor. The campaign hopes female voters will...