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...Department of Astronomy, in an e-mailed statement.The Educational Policy Committee’s Kenen said she was pleased with how thoughtful the department had been in their concentration revisions, allowing the EPC to approve them without reservation.“They really sat down and, from scratch, thought about ‘what is the purpose of an undergraduate education?’ and ‘what should that program look like?’” she said.After the department discussed the proposed changes in the spring and fall of 2008, the concentration was approved...
...claim that if you scratch the top part of a CD, where the label is, it's actually worse than if you scratch the bottom. Yes, it's surprising, isn't it? The laser looks through the clear bit, so we assume that's the delicate side. But actually, because of the way they're made - you start off with this lump of clear plastic and then you stick the foil on it, and then you stick a label on top of that - it's much thinner on the label side than it is on the other side...
...path that Tata Motors has followed to bring the Nano from sketchpad to showroom may prove to be much more important than its price tag. The company's engineers and parts suppliers started from scratch, rethinking every component to minimize cost and weight without sacrificing basic performance, comfort and style. As battered carmakers search for new business models to adapt to shifting, shrinking consumer demand, the Nano may point the way to the future - one that will likely revolve around smaller, more fuel-efficient and more cheaply produced vehicles. (See pictures of the Nano...
...It’s an era of unprecedented wealth, cartoon sitcoms and sex scandals: in a word, the Clinton Era.The dust jacket of “NoVA” (shorthand for Northern Virginia) reads like a recap of an episode of Desperate Housewives, promising to finally “scratch the shiny surface [of suburbia].” This topic may seem trite at worst and overworked at best, but Boice determinedly takes a stab at originality in examining the suicide of a seemingly-normal 17-year-old boy, and the context around that event, in excruciating detail.Within the first...
Until then, a 26-member Gen Ed committee had taken three years to produce their proposal—one, professors say, that did not excite much of the Faculty. Bok wanted to start over. He appointed a more manageable nine-person committee who started from scratch...