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...Sprigg denies that this is all a clever campaign to praise progress in public while derailing it behind closed doors. "We have no objection to it being part of the recommended standard of care," he says. Nor does his group object to Gardasil being covered by the federal Vaccines for Children program, which pays for immunizing uninsured and underinsured families. "So that should be sufficient to assure widespread distribution of the vaccine...
...Japanese phrase for "single numbers," Sudoku is actually an American invention. In 1979 Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games featured a puzzle called Number Place: nine boxes of nine boxes -imagine a big tic-tac-toe board with a tiny tic-tac-toe board in each square. The object is to fill in the numbers 1 through 9, nine times, so that no number is repeated in a horizontal or vertical line, or in any of the small boxes...
...foundational texts to contemporary problems, Kenen says, while others thought the courses should focus solely on the classic works and fundamental questions themselves.Since the committee was unable to reconcile these two concepts of general education, they ended up “trying to come to something nobody would strongly object to as opposed to something everybody would be excited about,” Kenen says. Brandt says he envisions multi-disciplinary general education courses that would be problem-oriented. A course on poverty, for example, might bring together law, government, economics, anthropology, and literature professors who would approach the problem...
...Harvard post presented “a fabulous opportunity.”It was an opportunity fraught with potential pitfalls.THE PEACE PROCESSOne night after the Prefect Program’s protest, Rinere met again with the program’s student leaders.The prefects didn’t object to Rinere’s peer-advising agenda. The path mapped out by the student-faculty committee’s report, which would expand the peer advising system’s academic counseling role, was the “direction [the prefect leadership] wanted to see itself go,” says...
...next phase of research, the object became keeping cholesterol levels in the blood under control and not necessarily keeping the cholesterol out of the diet. But how to do it? Again the key seemed to be eating less red meat, cream and butter, but it was based not so much on cholesterol as on saturated fat. Reason: saturated fat increases blood cholesterol. So eggs, high in cholesterol but not in saturated fat, were taken off the forbidden list, except for those people with the most serious cholesterol problems...