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...video, just visit Professor Oliver R. Knill’s personal blog, easily found on the Math 21b course Web site. Knill’s blog is part of his open and informal approach to teaching. He says that developing a personal connection with students can help to prevent students from feeling overwhelmed in large lectures. “I think these courses are very hard—the typical student works very hard. They are stressed and oftentimes pushed to the limit. It can be difficult for students to feel comfortable asking questions, and engaging in discussion...
...political crisis. "Against a backdrop of recession or economic stagnation, painful spending cuts would be extremely difficult for any government to sell to voters," he says, questioning whether such reductions would even succeed. "Drastic cuts in spending or [raising] tax risks deepening the recession, which would in itself prevent an improvement in the fiscal position...
...will be near $60 billion due to writedowns on a variety of assets including commercial real estate." The financial channel also reports that the need for capital may be so great that AIG might have to enter Chapter 11, something the government has spent over $130 billion trying to prevent. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...types of drugs have received government approval in the U.S. to slow the progression of Alzheimer's, but both offer only limited benefits - and many caregivers, desperate to better the lives of their patients, resort to such low-tech, behavior-based solutions as singing. (Read "Ginko Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer...
...other words, Californians need to brace for another wave of campaigning by politicians and special interest groups. "We're most concerned about the spending cap that would not just lock us into our broken health care system and prevent us from restoring or reforming, but it would force us to make cuts to existing services in the future," says Anthony Wright, executive director of the reform-minded Health Access California, who plans to campaign against the proposal...