Word: rigorously
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...thing is that it was the relatively inexperienced Barnard who made history in the new field. He beat to the punch--and undercut--more systematic and more disciplined scientists and surgeons of the time. Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University (who was my mentor) had patiently and with great rigor made a decade of systematic research by writing papers, teaching others and working through the challenges of the procedure. Barnard, who watched some of these procedures being carried out when he trained in the U.S., went back to South Africa and--with very little background...
...life relatively sane: sleep more, take time off, try to focus on one or just a few extracurriculars, in short, don’t go crazy. I am just a bit leery of the tone currently emanating from University Hall, which seems to be pushing for ever greater academic rigor while letting the emotional chips fall where they...
More recently, in a February memo Lewis wrote to those heading up the curricular review—including Summers and Kirby—he offered a scathing indictment of the view that increasing intellectual rigor ought to be the priority in revamping the College experience...
...George W. Bush seems destined to be a spectacular President - of some sort. He combines the idealism of Woodrow Wilson with the bravado of Theodore Roosevelt, but these were not always their best qualities. And he lacks the rigor, the love of learning, of either man. There is no ballast to this Administration, and we are going...
...guitar. All day, he has been clapping his big hands, flapping his long arms, and high-stepping around the bare concrete floor of a thatched rondavel-turned-makeshift studio - anything to fire up the choir of aids orphans with whom he is recording a charity album. Unused to the rigor and repetition of a recording session, especially in this infernal heat, the children are wilting. It's time for a break - and it's Tuku's turn to sing. A dozen kids cluster round, jostling for the best view of the fingers that sprint across the strings. Then Tuku...