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Medical students should also spend time in other countries, learning non-Western forms of medicine and making house-calls to patients, he said...
...know that non-Western males, particularly in anthropological studies in Africa, Asia and Nepal, who hunt or grow their food for a living, have significantly lower testosterone levels than Western males," says Bribiescas. "We think energy intake has something to do with this...
...could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum chose the first course. It proposed this past fall that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, non-western cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...
Approximately 40 students attended a forum with members of the search committee, voicing concerns with the diversity of the faculty, the manner in which the opening will be advertised, the potential for curriculum development in non-Western traditions, the feminist perspective and interdisciplinary expertise of the candidates...
Disney seemed to be taking a risk when it hired Taymor--an avant-garde director who uses puppets, masks and other non-Western theater techniques--to adapt its most popular animated film for the stage. It turns out to have been a masterstroke. Taymor has brought the same kind of let's-start-from-scratch inspiration that Walt and his fellow animators must have had when they created Mickey and Snow White and virtually invented the art of movie animation...