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...root of this problem is excessive course backloading. Though introductory courses must necessarily reserve assigning most of the credit until the end of the semester, backloading spreads far beyond this selection of classes. For the professors of many non-intro courses, written work due during reading period can determine over 50 percent of the course grade—not even including the final. As a result, students find themselves with a Herculean workload, no time to complete it, and their grades on the line...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Revisiting the Three R's | 5/20/2005 | See Source »

Mytob is a worm that installs a “root kit” or “back door” on infected computers, giving those behind the virus “root”, or full access, to those machines, Davis said. He added that such “root kits” are a tool commonly used in “Denial-of-service” (DoS) attacks, which seek to disrupt a network by overloading it, thereby causing users to lose service...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Viruses Target Harvard Computers | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

...next best thing to reliving their youth is remaking it. "Movie people these days are people who were very influenced by pop culture," says Hazzard producer Gerber. "And our tastes gravitate toward what I call comfort programming. It's why sometimes you want to go to A&W root beer. Starsky and Hutch? The Lord of the Rings? These things, if you were born in the '50s and '60s, are very relevant. If I could make a Beatles movie, I'd make a Beatles movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once More, With Feeling | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...sucking their root ends...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Say It in Flowers | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...Experimental travel has been slow to take root outside of a small circle of devotees. According to Latourex (or the Laboratory of Experimental Travel, established by Henry), there are currently 1,000 experimental travelers worldwide. But with the publication of the Lonely Planet book?which presents 40 of Henry's best experiments along with a potted history of his exploits?all that could change, so the streets may soon be full of people wearing horse heads (Horse Head Adventure) or riding penny-farthings (Anachronistic Travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have Horse Head, Will Travel | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

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