Word: rigorousness
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...opposed to the idea of a January term. We share, with many, legitimate fears that a January term would not have the faculty support to create the types of small seminar courses that would make it worthwhile. The January term as currently envisioned by the HCCR would lack academic rigor. It could degenerate into a glorified activities period. Students would be better served by a longer winter vacation with optional Harvard-funded components (like immersion in a foreign country). Driving the push for a January term is the desire to sync the calendars of all eleven schools at Harvard. However...
...awful, says Professor Perry Bartlett, director of the Queensland Brain Institute, "that the desire to do something in this area is stupendous. But there are lots of people willing to satisfy that demand in a way that doesn't fit with the rigor of clinical trials or experimental data." Given the number of people being operated on by Huang, "the real tragedy," says Bartlett, "is that there may be something in it but you would never be able to decipher it. And if there isn't, then we should be able to put it to bed." Huang wasn't available...
...Here your blades don’t hit too many rats with rigor mortis,” Kummer says. “And I haven’t seen a dead pig here...
...managed to bring back all my regrets at having gone there. I regret not knowing what normal college life is like. I regret not having been able to keep a girlfriend. I regret having been compelled to take engineering courses. I regret the aches and pains of the physical rigor. And I regret that the honor code made me too trusting of society. However, I still have no doubts that I did the right thing. Rod Lurie Second Lieutenant, U.S.A. Giessen, Germany...
...gruesome embrace with the dead. One was Omaira Sanchez, 13, who remained up to her neck in ooze two days following the disaster. When the mudslide struck, Omaira was washed up against her aunt, who grabbed hold of her. The aunt died, but kept her grip, even after rigor mortis had set in. Finally, after rescuers worked fruitlessly for 60 hours, Omaira died of a heart attack. In the days after the disaster, one doctor estimated that there were at least 1,000 living victims still trapped in the morass...