Word: mix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just as "Thou shalt not kill" will always mean thou shalt not kill. In high school economics, students are taught the need to return to the gold standard-on biblical authority. (To buttress their policy academy economics teachers cite Isaiah 1: 22, "Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water.") The academy proudly reports measurable results of this curriculum, taught in strict classrooms by teachers who view their work not as a job but as a calling: the five-year-olds, who attend for only half-days, read fluently. Academy students generally test one or two years above...
...optimal mix of career interests, personality characteristics, backgrounds, and so forth has apparently received little empirical or theoretical study. The idea of a "critical mass" of minority students or women, for example, seems to be supported by few empirical studies. How the average student benefits from studying at college with different numbers or proportions of blacks or Californians or athletes or socialists is not clear...
...administrative politics and academics are like oil and vinegar. They don't mix well, but one usually accompanies the other. Huggins's main task involves finding qualified faculty to teach courses in the department. He and Eileen Southern. Professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, are its only fulltime, tenured professors. Huggins says his current search efforts will result in Dean Rosovsky's offering tenured positions in the department to two scholars early this fall. If the trend of the past decade continues, however, it is doubtful that the two offers will result in appointments to the Harvard faculty. Huggins...
Concerns over the building have only exacerbated problems with combining the two programs. Bok ordered the mix because he felt the CRP program was becoming more of a public policy discipline than a design education. But the two programs differ in the emphasis they place on quantitative as opposed to qualitative analysis, and disagreements have spilled over into their attempts to develop a joint basic curriculum and admissions policy...
...film Alien. Io gave Hyams his setting: a futuristic mining colony that looks like a gigantic Tinkertoy. Alien provided much of the rest: a crew of steel-spined, me-first mercenaries stalked by a mysterious killer. (In Alien it was a mutating monster; here it is a dangerous drug.) Mix them together with the plot from the old Gary Cooper western High Noon and you have the formula for this summer's big-budget sci fi-horror clone...