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According to one source, blind letters list junior faculty members with other professors with similar experience, so as not to weigh the scales against younger professors.
The renovated facility is equipped with a ramp for the handicapped, a photocopier for customer use, two automatic stamp vending machines, several computerized scales, a conference room and a postal store.
% ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES. Like STMs, these instruments possess an atomically small tip that resembles a phonograph needle. An AFM reads a surface by touching it, tracing the outlines of individual atoms in much the same way a blind person reads Braille. Because the electromagnetic force applied by the tip is...
The most impressive new British play, Hare's Murmuring Judges, starts as a panoramic survey of a criminal-justice system shamefully subverted by careerism and bureaucracy. Gradually the story focuses on a hapless petty burglar, imprisoned almost five years for a first offense. Hare, a left- winger, has a thumb...
I think the key to my survival has been trying to balance necessities and amenities. I'm not teaching this year because the scales have tipped a bit too far to one side. Maybe if I'm particularly diligent, I will see some of my peers back in June for...