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...professors of Historical Studies B have reason to be teaching scared. If the planned overhaul of the Core Curriculum replaces Historical Studies B with a more flexible set of distribution requirements, they fear students won’t turn up for their antiquarian history classes. The Core currently forces much of the student body to be exposed to classical, medieval, and early modern history, while new distribution requirements would almost assuredly make it easier for students to escape the distant past, if not the study of history entirely.The declared intent of Historical Studies B is to acquaint non-concentrators with...
Apple boss Steve Jobs made good Tuesday on speculation that his company would offer movie downloads and a movie-ready iPod for the holiday season. During his presentation, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, he also unveiled an overhaul of the nano line, with flash-memory capacity reaching 8 gigabytes, as anticipated. The only unexpected announcement was a new version of the nearly forgotten iPod shuffle-cutting the size of the 1GB screen-less music player by half, and cutting its price...
...Behind Benedict's Vatican Overhaul Though eyes are on his trip home, the Pope is (gradually) launching big changes back in the Roman Curia
...this fall. Some, in fact, predict that Bertone - a longtime trusted confidante of the former Cardinal Ratzinger - was handpicked to be Secretary of State in order to usher in a virtual revolution in the way Catholic Church headquarters operates. Through an effort that will be part downsizing, part priority overhaul, the theologian pontiff is said to want Church headquarters to be both a more holy and a more efficient entity...
...reports of America's decline proved to be premature. In 2012 President Warner's successor surprised the foes of the U.S. with a bold reinvention of America. The reform of Medicare and Social Security, combined with a radical overhaul of the federal tax system, had quite dramatic consequences. Growth surged. So did productivity...