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...lectures, labs and sections (and, on rare occasions, a life). Evening hours also enable budding Medievalists to get a better feel for the material (i.e., look at the readings) before meeting with McCormick. “I feel that with Skype hours, students have a few more hours to skim over materials—students will have deeper questions,” said head teaching fellow Kelly L. Gibson. “I think it’s something they can prepare more for.” Students further praise the cyber-meetings with getmedieval (McCormic’s online...
...Brigham and Women’s preventive medicine division, a total of 39,310 female health professionals over the age of 45 completed a detailed diet and food questionnaire, 28,886 of which were used in the study. The questionnaire consisted of 131 items and assessed dairy products including skim milk, cream cheese, low-fat yogurt, and ice cream. “This was a large-scale epidemiologic study,” Manson said. “We were particularly interested in low-fat dairy products, specifically the role of calcium and vitamin D in the development of hypertension...
...America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest in the U.S. today. From a general reader's perspective, it's this sort of taut link between a remote buried past and the present that keeps Barbieri-Low's professorial yet approachable history from floundering in arcane detail. (You may want to skim the fastidious passages on Qin and Han tax codes, however...
...Nine” as one of its ten best books of the year.And guess where all of that success brings him? Right back to Harvard.“The irony is that I sort of live my life like a first year law student; I get to skim off the interesting issues,” the 1986 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate says. “I don’t have to deal with whatever boring project a client takes in. I have the luxury of only dealing with subjects that engage people.”In person, Toobin...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...