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...root cause is a language barrier. Faculty members of the sciences and the humanities strongly adhere to the belief that the world can either be exclusively expressed in math or in words. Social science also splits off the world in this manner. Any student who is taking intermediate microeconomics needs to decide if he wants to take a class taught in English or in math. If the former, he is to take Economics 1010a, “Microeconomic Theory.” If the latter, Economics 1011a, “Microeconomic Theory.” Science theses should typically have...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Killing BioAnthro | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...game is spreading to charities with no particular root in the gay community. Last fall, the Young Professionals Network of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center raised $8,000 running drag queen bingo. "We're trying to get younger people involved, the 20- and 30-something-year-olds," says Kathryn Buckley, development coordinator of the Englewood, Colo. center. "A lot of us can't afford to do the big black-tie dinners and golf tournaments, and this is just so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Drag Queens Took Over Bingo | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...when listening to a good drummer.”In between saying ‘hi’ to students who walked by and offering them a taste of the favorite snack his mother sent from home, Ogunnaike explains his passion for drumming. “Drumming is the root foundation of all music because you have to have rhythm in any music you play,” he says. “Drumming strips away all the extraneous, interesting, and beautiful things like melody and harmony, and is just about when you play the notes and how you play...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oludamini D. Ogunnaike '07 | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...terrorists will be treated like terrorists themselves. It now includes two additional elements: preemption, which calls for confronting the worst threats before they emerge; and Bush's "freedom agenda," which argues for nurturing democratic institutions within the Middle East as a way to deal with terrorism at its root...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edwards Rejects the "War on Terror" | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Tunisia and Libya, meanwhile, authoritarian policing has kept extremist groups from taking root. But as the January firefight that left a dozen Tunisian radicals dead after they'd returned from Algeria attests, some degree of regional cooperation already exists for al-Qaeda to build upon. Underground groups in Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania have long trafficked materiel, weapons and personnel among themselves. A January 2005 attack on a military post in Mauritania by fighters of the Algerian GSPC prompted the U.S. and certain European states to begin funding the $100 million annual Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative, seeking to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's North African Terror Threat | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

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