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...cutting tools, optical equipment and lasers--are easy to generate. This type of production has become so routine that thousands of small plants all over China pour out synthetic diamonds suitable for cutting stone. Gem-quality diamonds of one carat or more, however, are trickier because at that size it's difficult to consistently produce diamonds of high quality, even in the controlled environment of a lab. But after a half-century of trial and error, that may be changing. Several diamondmaking companies are starting to produce high-quality diamonds to rival the stones emerging from mines, and they could...
...Nemo got the publishing treatment it deserved: a full-size (21-by-16-in.) book called So Many Splendid Sundays, created with love and by Peter Maresca, a former designer at Apple. As an art book, it's as gorgeous as any devoted to Michelangelo or Matisse, and the reproductions are better. You may not find a shelf with vertical space big enough to hold this book; and don't put it on a coffee table (whose service it would nearly cover), less you spill some frappuccino on it. But buy and treasure it - and hope that, unlike my copy...
...courses will create a culture of constructive criticism that can only benefit teaching. Similar systems already exist at many of Harvard’s professional schools, and FAS should follow suit.The third key recommendation is that course evaluations be mandatory for all courses over a certain minimum size. This page has consistently lambasted faculty who believe that getting feedback from students is below them because they are “more wise.” Regular evaluations should form the cornerstone of improved teaching. But diagnosing a problem is quite different from curing one. The implementation of most...
...rebuking Harvard for being secretive about the investment of its greenbacks. The establishment of green buildings, adjustments made to individual behavior, use of local and organic food by the dining services, “aggressive recycling,” and size of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative were among the achievements that earned Harvard six A’s in the College Sustainability Report Card, released last week. “Harvard University has one of the most comprehensive campus sustainability programs in the country,” the report said. The institute largely saved its criticism of Harvard...
...from the social inequality that has beset such rapidly growing neighbors as China. But the policy was sustainable only as long as Tokyo had budget surpluses to burn. Today, Japan may be the world's second-richest nation, but its public debt that is more than 1.5 times the size of its GDP, the highest in the developed world. So, a budget-conscious central government has cut subsidies, and Yubari will have to pay back $293 million over the next 18 years...