Word: scoping
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...covers since she has somehow been "re-shaped to please men" as a sex slave. The twist of the story - that men kill each other to become her "master" - doesn't make up for such a nasty premise. To be fair, in an epilogue the author writes, "The true scope of my work can only be understood after you have read my later stories." Sexism aside, The Push Man collection feels as fresh and revelatory as when the works of Japanese cinema first began arriving...
...drive for publicity and glory. Not that the cynics needed reminding. A survey of 3,247 scientists published last June by the University of Minnesota and HealthPartners Research Foundation reported that up to a third of the respondents had engaged in ethically dubious practices. But thanks to the international scope of Hwang's scandal, the public's faith in science?rarely unconditional even in times of dazzling technological progress?has taken a hit. "At least in the U.S., my feeling is that people are more mistrustful about science than they used to be," says Christopher Scott, a Stanford University bioethicist...
...seek to broaden the scope of a liberal education and to expand choices for Harvard College students, crafting an undergraduate curriculum that is defined less by the requirements that it places on students and more by the commitments that the Faculty makes to undergraduate education in the liberal tradition...
...Educational Policy Committee has reviewed the purpose, structure, timing and scope of concentrations. Its several recommendations-for example, of later concentration choice and the creation of secondary fields-aim to make the Freshman year a time of true exploration, the upper-class experience one of multiple immersions, and all four years ones of meaningful student-faculty engagement...
...five years, President Bush has already challenged up to 500 provisions, according to one tally--far, far more than any predecessor. But more important than the number under Bush has been the systematic use of the statements and the scope of their content, asserting a very broad legal loophole for the Executive. Last December, for example, after a year of debate, the President signed the McCain amendment into law. In the wake of Abu Ghraib, the amendment banned all "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of U.S. military detainees. For months, the President threatened a veto. Then the Senate passed...