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...lecture class with hundreds of students, the professor 's teaching ability may not b as important as the skill of the Teaching Fellow (TF) explaining diffcult concept or leading a meaningful discussion...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Helping TFs Make the Grade | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...lecture class with hundreds of students, the professor's teaching ability may not be as important as the Teaching Fellow's (TF) skill in explaining difficult concepts or leading a meaningful discussion. Because TFs are crucial to undergraduate education, it is often the students who suffer the consequences when their graduate student instructors fail to make the grade...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When TFs Don't Make the Grade | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...perform, often failing to distinguish between a beach ball and a cabbage, to say nothing of picking out a familiar face in a photo album filled with strangers. Such a pattern-recognition talent, says Salk Institute neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski, in whose lab the work was done: "is a survival skill humans probably had even before they acquired language. For computers, it's a major challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lying Faces Unmasked | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...past Larroquette has excelled at showing the depth of irredeemable characters, but here he plays a one-dimensional villain, and he lacks the comedic skill to pull it off. Though to be fair, Charlie Chaplin couldn't pull off these jokes. Larroquette's last show at least aimed for smarter laughs--and got script suggestions faxed in from Thomas Pynchon. It's unlikely he will make any for Payne. If he does, he'd better submit them within the next few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Payne | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Piaget was after was a theory that could find in the wind dialogue coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young children in very good stead when they don't know enough or have enough skill to handle the kind of explanation that grownups prefer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Psychologist Jean Piaget | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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