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...professors prefer [e-mail]; it'san easy way for you to phrase a question and theydon't feel harassed. I've gotten very detailedreplies [from professors]," Hechler says...
...When the Internet-powers-that-be work alone, however, the results are more dubious. Witness Intel's unveiling Tuesday of Quick Web technology, which will do little more than double the download of a 28.8 modem, while delivering clunky graphics and cached pages. Most surfers would likely prefer to wait for the wintel-Bell cartel to deliver. Next problem: how to handle traffic when everyone and their grandmother is sucking down a million bits a second...
Even such tenuous feelers toward the U.S. put Khatami on the other side of the political barricades from his nation's supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Spiritual chief Khamenei and other militant hard-liners still prefer shouting sulfurous slogans at the "Great Satan" and setting fire to Old Glory. Khatami has been walking a line between the Iranian reformers and mossbacks from the day he was elected. At an Islamic summit in Tehran last month, Khatami reportedly passed the word that he intended to reshape and moderate Iran's foreign policy, but it would take him two years to build...
...BITES MAN A lot. Nearly 4.5 million dog bites occur each year, sending 334,000 folks to the emergency room. The bites generate more ER action than in-line skates, skateboards and baby walkers combined. And men, watch out: pooches prefer nipping...
While most medical schools prefer the mathematics course to be partly calculus, but for Harvard, Duke, Washington University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Schools, a year of calculus is required. While Harvard offers numerous courses to fulfill each requirement, many first-years are still confused which of the available science courses they should take...