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...classroom activity I just described is a one-way transfer of information—from the instructor to the students. If education were a mere transfer of information (and a Harvard education the transfer of this information by very accomplished faculty), then we could easily “bottle” a Harvard education and spread it worldwide. Just turn our lectures into flawlessly executed podcasts and let the masses download them. Nothing will be lost in the experience. In fact, everyone will have a front-row seat and an advantage that no one has in a real lecture...
...tearing up Broadway at 40 miles per hour. I beg of you—fight the urge, lest you end up sending the next Karl Marx to University Health Services. Yes, it may be expected that we walkers look both ways before we cross, but the maddening preponderance of one-way streets in this city has lulled us into complacency...
...airline also travels to - well, not exactly sexy destinations. Torontonians, after all, can be a snobby bunch when it comes to other Canadian cities. "If there is one thing I do not want as a Torontonian, it is a one-way ticket to Ottawa," wrote popular Toronto Star columnist Joey Slinger. "You couldn't sell me one for 79 cents." How about to New York? Porter has applied to begin operating flights to Newark's Liberty International Airport. The U.S. Department of Transportation is reviewing the application, and will factor in objections from Air Canada, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines...
...year after completing the research for her doctorate at the U.S. government's prestigious National Institutes of Health in Maryland, one of the inconveniences she found was being put onto a series of three-month contracts rather than a permanent one. Finding work in London, Dublin, Montreal and other foreign cities, by contrast, seems much easier. Vladimir Cordier, an unemployed French graduate, got a job within five days of arriving at London's Waterloo Station on a one-way Eurostar ticket, and was so elated that he even wrote a book about his experience in 2005. Its title: Finally...
Tribe, who has called Obama “a political and rhetorical genius,” pulled up to Wilkins’ house in a red Toyota Prius just before 7 p.m. The law professor then proceeded to park illegally, facing the wrong way on a one-way street...