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...signals from the video game industry in April were troubling. Sales of games dropped 23% and game console sales were down over 40%, according to research firm NPD. (See pictures of the history of video games...
...book like this is organized around anxiety," says Maggie Little, a bioethicist at Georgetown University and a member of the Ob-Gyn Risk Research Group, which includes experts from obstetrics and gynecology as well as bioethics, philosophy, medical epidemiology and sociology, who mull over risk - both real and perceived - in women's reproductive lives. "It would take a normal person and make her crazy...
...Since then, she has served as Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and assistant dean and director of special programs, associate dean for administration and finance, and associate dean for academic programs at the College. Recently, Herschbach said she has been involved with creating the Program for Research in Science and Engineering, improving the freshman seminars program, and designing integrated introductory science classes, including Life Sciences 1a and Physical Sciences 1. She noted that as a dean, she cannot claim any of these programs as her own, “but someone like me, a dean, can make...
...after a University-wide committee was founded a year later, the FAS committee grew irrelevant and soon stopped meeting, according to science professor Gary J. Feldman, a founding member of both the FAS and University-wide committees. At Wednesday’s meeting, the Standing Committee on Faculty Research Support, the Standing Committee on Privacy, Accessibility, and Security of Records, and the Standing Committee on the Administration of the Bowdoin Prizes—which will be reconstituted as a prize committee—were all eliminated. FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said that Smith is reexamining whether all these faculty...
...Over 200 similarly themed courses likewise sprouted up in universities across the United States, drawing consistently large audiences. Nor was this a fad, like phone-booth-stuffing or streaking, for bored college kids alone. Baby boomers—Oprah not excluded—consumed the newest books on happiness research as fast as publishers could roll them out, sating the metaphysical void once filled by “The Tao of Physics...