Word: professor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, after my indignation subsided, I realized that it is his responsibility to worry about my workload--he is, after all, my professor, and I am his student. But the issue does not end here. The problem is, in fact, something altogether different from concern for my academic development. The problem is that, as the dual submission policy now stands, the University is punishing students for being honest...
...course, my professor could reply to my complaints by arguing that I should not have taken the classes I did. The problem then is that I would be choosing my courses solely on the basis of the workload involved. Although this is a compromise all students must make every term, it is certainly not an inclination professors should encourage. If faced with a choice between taking a more demanding courseload while dual submitting one paper and taking a bunch of guts, I think that most professors would want students to choose the former...
...York City, which offers bereavement leave to municipal workers, a couple must officially register their relationship with the city's personnel department, have lived together for one year and attest that they have a "close and committed personal relationship involving shared responsibilities." Thomas F. Coleman, a law professor who directs California's Family Diversity Project, proposes that live-in couples "who have assumed mutual obligation of commitment and support for each other" be allowed to apply for a "certificate of domestic partnership" that would function like a marriage certificate...
...usual, King's prose is fast, simple and sloppy. He has young Beaumont in 1960 use the current slang "get off on," meaning enjoy, and lets an elderly English professor say he will "loan" the hero a car (old pedants say "lend"). The climax has the brutish Stark absurdly trying to write another novel to keep his ectoplasm from sloughing away in rivulets of goo. Characterization is perfunctory, with an odd exception: Beaumont's eight- month-old twin babies are vividly and charmingly described. For King fans this may be the sort of thing that sustains the myth that...
...research centers around the world see much broader possibilities for minuscule machines. They envision armies of gnat-size robots exploring space, performing surgery inside the human body or possibly building skyscrapers one atom at a time. "Microelectronics is on the verge of a second revolution," says Jeffrey Lang, a professor of electromechanics at M.I.T. "We're still dreaming of applications...