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...find enough quality to keep the pages turning. The wealth of quirky factoids also helps: Bhutan, for instance, has a "Gross National Happiness" indicator, and did you know that a German minority (numbering 15,000 souls) can be found in Kyrgyzstan? Don't look for any depth here-the scope of the book means that it's impossible to devote more than a few pages to each country-but as a springboard to a continent it does the job. Expect it to spur many a nascent travel plan into action...
...encourage and enable Harvard to think and act more like a university,” Faust wrote, “a place in which we are not inhibited by intellectual or bureaucratic boundaries, a place which seems both intimate in its collegiality and immense in its intellectual scope, both welcoming and endlessly challenging to all of us privileged to be part...
Harvard missed the chance to file a basic patent on the process of developing black silicon. When the scope of the discovery’s applications became clear in the year that followed that meeting, the University scrambled to patent a more narrow application of the process. It is not clear how much money Harvard forfeited...
...Fryer’s work ethic has impressed his colleagues, and he remains unfailingly modest about the wide scope of his research, saying he only wants to do this job well...
...drown-proofing exercise failed to render me sea-worthy, instead just leaving me angry and wet, but it ended up being a life-altering exercise in a broad scope. That moment in the pool crystallized the school’s systemic absurdity: Despite all of the good things about it, boarding school is an irredeemably terrible idea. So, I never really bought in—I had fun, fooled around, and messed up, at least in comparison to the average student here...