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Many critics believed that the waves of general education reform did not point towards anything progressive, and that the national flurry of reforms marked a swing of the pendulum back to the way curricula were before 1960s campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Constructing the Core Curriculum | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...cinnamon chip, that contains about a third of the carbs of regular loaves. The new offerings represent about 5% of sales, and many of these, he says, are to fresh customers as opposed to recipe switchers. But the reformulated loaves with the subtly spongier texture may not swing the pendulum back anytime soon. "I wouldn't eat enough to justify getting a whole loaf," said low-carb dieter Sue Hagedorn, who was buying her son an oversize cookie at a full-carb bakery down the street from Great Harvest. Upscale-sandwich chain Panera Bread, which is based in Richmond Heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bread Toast? | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

Every half-century, it seems, an eminent Harvard psychologist crystallizes an intellectual era. Near the end of the 19th century, William James, writing in Darwin's wake, stressed how naturally functional the mind is. In the mid--20th century, after a pendulum swing, B.F. Skinner depicted the mind as a blank slate. Now the pendulum is swinging again. Harvard, which lured Pinker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year, seems poised to keep its tradition alive. --BY ROBERT WRIGHT, author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steven Pinker: How Our Minds Evolved | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

After the popularity of the more functional stainless-steel look of the '80s and high-tech thrust of the '90s, it's only natural that the pendulum would swing back toward products with the mark of the human hand. A similar return to warmer, more emotional design occurred in the 1950s in response to the cold minimalism that dominated the preceding decades. "It's the old caveman thing. We like reflections of ourselves," says Moss. "We can never get too far away from the recognition in these objects of human involvement." For example, KitchenAid's new Pro Line is designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Retro Can You Go? | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

Crimson co-captain forward Lauren McAuliffe, however, is unfazed by Dartmouth’s predicament—no matter which way the pendulum swings...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Olympians Key for Big Green | 1/9/2004 | See Source »

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