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Flying in a seaplane up the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia you see little but forested hills, a myriad of islands and the blue waters of the narrow channel that runs from Seattle to the Alaska Panhandle. As the plane drops over a ridge, a floating hut appears, anchored in the channel and nestled in a grid of net-covered pens. It all looks innocuous enough--no smoking chimneys, no visible plumes of discharge, no growling of chainsaws, not even a road...
...investigating an alleged plot by white extremists to topple the government found a cache of 26 bombs in the farming area of Keimoes in Northern Cape province. A group calling itself Warriors of the Boer Nation claimed responsibility for last month's Soweto bombings, which killed one woman. PAKISTAN Narrow Victory After some arm-twisting by military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the National Assembly chose Zafarullah Jamali as Prime Minister, the first since a 1999 military coup. Losing candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi claimed Musharraf used threats and bribes to persuade some assemblymen to switch sides. A last-minute waiver of rules...
...city has plenty of other artistic, architectural and even culinary gems - the raisins in the bun. You just have to know where to walk. Step one: cross the Aker River. Before the 1624 fire that destroyed almost all of medieval Oslo, downtown was actually several kilometers east of the narrow, meandering stream. King Christian IV rebuilt it to the west and renamed it Christiania after himself. (In 1924, the city reverted to the original name, derived from the Old Norse words As (God) and lo (field).) Today, the commercial center and most of the tourist destinations are west...
...regurgitation becomes the order of the day. There is a kind of smallness to the way we learn that stifles inspiration. Of course, not all classes are guilty of such limited imaginings, nor should they sacrifice details for larger ideas. But what does get lost in the kind of narrow thinking we are encouraged to do is space for the risky leaps that generate true learning—expansive, flexible and free...
...answer, I think, is that it shouldn’t. By being risk averse in how we learn, the rewards of risk-taking are often sacrificed for the rewards of playing it safe: narrow details take the place of a broader imagination. The kind of learning we do here should encourage depth, creativity and leaps of faith—risk-taking, as someone once said, is free. The cure for risk-aversion may require slowing down, but more importantly, it requires a joint effort on the parts of professors and students alike to change the culture of how we learn...