Word: preferably
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...catalog and pick whatever makes them happy, is that amidst the spasms of academic choice, course offerings have often become so peripheral that the only recourse to general education is to take impersonal, large surveys like History 10a (120 students) or English 10a (141 students). Those students who would prefer a 15-person Great Books seminar as opposed to, by way of example, an 11-person offering on “The Female Body in Modern America” are typically out of luck.Yale has solved this problem already. That school’s application-required Directed Studies program offers...
...think I would prefer a few quiet days in my home to going on a vacation,” he says matter-of-factly. “This house has a lived-in feeling...
...killed the Kocyigits. They found the structure of those genes was very similar to that found in the avian version. But nimr director and influenza expert John Skehel says he has also found a worrisome protein change in one of the human genetic sequences. "That mutation makes the virus prefer human cells," Skehel told Time. He cautioned that there are other factors - some still unknown - that will determine whether people eventually transmit bird flu to one another. But, he says, the protein mutation is "one of the things" that is required. Scientists are intrigued, however, by the cases...
...availability of aptitude at the high end,” contending that a greater number of men than women are capable of extraordinary brilliance in the sciences.• “socialization and patterns of discrimination,” two separate theories arguing that men might simply prefer science more than women and that claims of gender discrimination in academia appear overstated.Much has been made of those hypotheses and their relative merits in the year since Summers and his critics brought them into national view. And the notes, which closely mirror the transcript of his remarks that...
...last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion.He is right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there...