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Relate the school to life,” wrote educational philosopher John Dewey in 1907, “and all studies are of necessity correlated.”In 2006, the Harvard Task Force on General Education, a small committee chosen to rethink last year’s General Education proposal regarding the Core curriculum, wrote on page four of their preliminary report, “General education is the place where students are brought to understand how everything that we teach in the liberal arts and sciences relates to their lives.”While no Opal Mehta...
...deal with the crisis. While the government and the l.t.t.e. say they will attend peace talks in Geneva this week, the fighting continues: the Sri Lankan navy engaged Tiger rebels in a fierce sea battle last Friday, killing 20. Amid the mayhem, even hardy travelers are likely to rethink their vacation plans...
...Well the book arose out of research I’ve been doing for a number of years. I was a conscientious objector in the Vietnam War, and over the years since then, I’ve found myself rethinking my position many times, often as a result of my interactions with students, who either come from a military background and have helped me to understand the complexity of the professional military today, or who are humanitarians seeking to use force for a variety of different humanitarian purposes around the world, whether in Darfur or Bosnia, or wherever...
...arms program in the mid-1970s.) But all reside snugly under the so-called U.S. nuclear umbrella--any attack by Pyongyang would bring the full destructive force of the U.S. military in response. And last week all swore off any notion that North Korea's test would make them rethink their policy of eschewing nukes...
Another concern: supplement companies may soon have to rethink their MLM models in order to go global. In July, Nu Skin received word that China's Ministry of Commerce has approved the company's proposal to begin direct sales in that country early next year. (So far, Avon is the only other such U.S. company allowed there.) Nu Skin has poured $100 million into manufacturing plants and opened 150 retail shops in China. But it won't be business as usual. Under the license, Chinese distributors earn commissions on products sold outside stores but won't be paid to recruit...