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...missing in this hollow rhetoric about the sciences is any real discussion of what science education consists of and how to teach it. Given the plenitude of undergraduate complaints about science cores, one must seriously question how feasible it is to grant every student, including the most science-phobic, Shakespeare-toting humanities junkie, the serious knowledge about science Summers calls for. In speeches, Summers has justified the need for scientific understanding on the basis of the needs of a globalized society, another perennial (if somewhat meaningless) refrain in this curricular review. What’s all too obvious, unfortunately...
...touch the hand. That is one of the first things you learn if you endeavor to learn anything about Donald Trump. Despite his reputation as America's most public--and publicized--billionaire, the germ-phobic Trump hates to shake hands. So I am taken aback when, in the reception room of his Trump Tower office, he proffers his mitt. "You look like a clean guy," he says. (Little does he know I have a 2-year-old at home sneezing up a day-care center's worth of cold viruses. Sorry, Donald...
...NONINVASIVE Only one device approved by the Food and Drug Administration provides glucose measurements without puncturing the skin. Worn on the wrist, it uses tiny electric currents to gently draw body fluid from the skin up to six times an hour for as long as 13 hours. The needle-phobic still won't be able to avoid finger pricks, however. The "watch" needs to be used in conjunction with conventional blood-sample monitoring. --By Alice Park
...hard for Americans to shake the collective memory of Vietnam when they're sending young men and women to kill and die in distant lands. And it's not only the quagmire-phobic antiwar types that can't avoid the Vietnam references: To raise their morale before entering Iraq in March, U.S. Marines in Kuwait were visited by R. Lee Ermey, the Vietnam vet who has become a USMC legend for his portrayal of a hard-as-nails gunnery sergeant in Stanley Kubrick's 'Nam flick "Full Metal Jacket." Ermey obliged by reciting some of his more memorable motivational lines...
Consolini first went to Belize on a whim, after a business conference in New Orleans about 20 years ago. He says it seemed like a good idea, instead of returning straight to New York, to keep travelling south. The foreign-language-phobic Consolini chose Belize because he learned that the national language is English...