Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CORE CURRICULUM'S five-year review approaches, it may seem that the Faculty, the University community in general, and a good portion of the national press have already said all there is to say about Harvard's grand educational experiment. This satiation must not dissuade the Faculty, however, from reevaluating the infamous set of undergraduate requirements with an open mind. While the Faculty is clearly unlikely to completely dismantle a program so painstakingly and expensively built up, the group should take this opportunity to make some much-needed adjustments...
Although the new portion of Quincy House has several rooms designed for full acceptability, students in wheelchairs can only reach curtain sections of the House--including the dining hall--through complicated and isolated routes, the students said...
...less obvious dangers. All are related to lengthy stays in zero gravity, though scientists do not fully understand why all the changes occur. Bones lose lose one-half of 1% of their calcium each month. Some body fluid shifts from the extremities to the chest and head; a portion of the fluid is excreted. Fatigue sets in, and sound sleep becomes elusive. The heart's size shrinks by 10%. Astronauts exercising on land after a flight have a higher pulse rate than they did before space. "We think it takes only 48 hours in space for this change...
Jack Morse, captain of the Harvard University Police Department, said that Harvard has not experienced a fire of serious magnitude since 1965, when a blaze erupted in a Quincy House suite. A portion of the lower in Memorial hall also caught fire in the 1950s, he said...
...deemed the sin of omission, and the concept antedates Aquinas in the Old Testament prophets. In domestic law it goes by the name of negligence. The application is familiar: by doing nothing to prevent a wrongful act, in spite of having the power to do so, one shares a portion of the blame. It may go further. If one sets into motion a train of events that lead to a calamity, however circuitously, he may be culpable as well, the absence of intention being merely a detail...