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...recently saw somewhat of a panic with swine flu. Are viruses the thing that's going to wipe this planet clean, as opposed to nuclear bombs? It certainly is the one threat that seems to allow us to be irrational about things. A nuclear attack requires a device, it can be intercepted, it can only affect a certain area. There is a logic to the way it spreads. But a virus grows exponentially. Every time it expands, there's a casualty. It's closer to a panic - closer, therefore, to a very primal fear...
...know him well? He was a huge influence in my life. When I was a kid, I actually wrote him a letter asking him to adopt me. Unfortunately, my father found the letter before I could mail it and he gave me quite a belting. But Forrey and I saw each other many times over the years. I was lucky enough to be a speaker at his tribute about a month ago. My library home is essentially my version of the Ackermansion. It's me trying to imitate my hero...
...represented the full extent of Mendillo’s ambitions, and former Wellesley President Diana C. Walsh says she understood that Mendillo’s time was limited when they hired her. Nevertheless, she says the school is grateful for the work she did.The portfolio Mendillo created for Wellesley saw annualized returns of 13.5 percent during her first five years in charge. “I believe I was able to leave [Wellesley] in a much stronger position than what it was when I came in,” Mendillo says. “Wellesley gave me the top-down...
...first met in the fall of 2007. “As a curriculum, as a grouping of categories, it would be hard to say that anyone was genuinely excited about it,” former Gen Ed committee member Li says of the group, adding that none of them saw it as a “radical shift” from the Core. Buckler says she hopes that students will find Gen Ed courses to be “an actual experience that really counts for something.” “[Gen Ed classes] should feel real?...
...leader’s genetic makeup and partly by the environments in which the traits were learned and developed.A nice experiment recently demonstrated the interaction between nature and nurture. A group of employers were asked to hire workers who had been ranked by their looks. If the employers saw only the resumes, beauty had no impact on hiring. Surprisingly, however, when telephone interviews were included in the process, beautiful people did better even though unseen by the employers. A lifetime of social reinforcement based on their genetic looks may have encoded into their voice patterns a tone of confidence that...