Word: obvious
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...obvious question is: Who cares? Isn’t college supposed to be “private” time for students, when Wu-Tang and Coors Light are supposed to be at the top of our priority list? Or, the student-scholars on campus might respond, shouldn’t I work a little harder, alone in the stacks of Widener, rather than teach in Mission Hill—isn’t that what Harvard...
...first privately funded group to send a robot to the moon. However, PETA’s prize is unconventional in that it is the first prize put forward in the area of ethics, not exploration.For PETA, an organization devoted to stop the slaughter of animals, in vitro meat has obvious appeal. Despite efforts from activists, meat consumption continues to grow at home and abroad. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported that from 1970 to 2005 US meat consumption increased 12.3 percent to 200 lbs per person per year. The U.N. similarly predicts that global meat consumption will double...
...feckless effort by the State Department. But Administration officials insist they don't expect that to happen. They believe North Korea 3.0 - the "shame on you" policy - may pay off. "I doubt they're walking away," says one diplomat involved in the talks. Yes, they say, North Korea's obvious and serial proliferation is a huge problem. That's why getting Pyongyang to mothball its plutonium program has already been a significant accomplishment. Convincing Kim to surrender his stash of weapons, and whatever plutonium it has left over, would be another big step forward, and should remain the focus...
...should be pretty obvious, then, that the U.S. doesn't have a strong-dollar policy. What's more, it almost certainly shouldn't have one. The huge trade deficits that the country has been running for the past decade seem like a pretty good indication that the dollar was overvalued in global currency markets and needed to come down...
...vast majority of proposals received by the committee have been for existing Core courses, mostly in the humanities. Committee chair Jay M. Harris also said the the most represented area of the roughly 40 proposals received has been the humanities. “It’s pretty obvious you’re not going to map out any curriculum from scratch,” said Professor Laurel Ulrich, who will begin teaching “Pursuits of Happiness” next fall. “It also seems like a terrible waste of resources to throw out courses that...