Word: shorter
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...problem with this current calendar phase is simply that reading period has become truncated. Last year’s fall reading period, excluding winter break, was ten days long. By contrast, this year’s reading period is only one week long—a full three days shorter. For many, this adjustment resulted in a far more hectic Thanksgiving recess than in years past, as students faced returning from break with fast-approaching paper due dates and impending exams. In the past, this arrangement would not be such a problem (the spring semester has always transitioned from classes...
...potential response to the stresses of a shorter reading period would be for professors to avoid assigning the heavy workloads at the end of the fall semester that would have been manageable under the old calendar, and instead opt to distribute the workload more evenly throughout the semester. Too many professors this fall maintained their old syllabi structures without considering the potential impact of calendar reform on end-of-term student workloads...
Public-service broadcast Channel 4 in the UK first aired the production in 2008, while PBS aired a shorter U.S. version in January and July 2009, in time for the bank collapses and bailouts of the global financial crisis...
Paper due dates are approaching, finals are just around the bend, and the days are growing shorter, engulfing Cambridge in metaphorical and actual darkness. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light,” said Albus Dumbledore in the movie “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” This month, Boston’s Museum of Science is putting a spotlight on “Harry Potter: The Exhibition...
...Harvard researchers pointed to a 2007 study at the University of Rochester demonstrating that uninsured patients were less likely to receive consultations with doctors and tended to have shorter stays than insured patients...