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...Renaissance in Florence.” Taught by mustachioed oenophile and Renaissance intellectual historian James Hankins, “Renaissance in Florence” is big enough and draws enough sweatshirt-wearing, non-concentrator athletes to be an attractive out for students trying to slip through the cracks of the Core. And beware the notoriously irrelevant lecturing of McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment, who leads B-18, “The Protestant Reformation.”If major historical events interest you less than the everyday lives of dull, dead people, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich?...
Environmental poisons neverplay by the rules. Just when you think you've got them figured out and rounded up, they give you the slip. Get the lead out of gasoline, and it comes at you through aging pipes. Bury waste and toxins in landfills, and they seep into groundwater. Mercury, at least, we thought we understood. For all its toxic power, as long as we avoided certain kinds of fish in which contamination levels were particularly high, we'd be fine. And not even everyone had to be careful, just children and women of childbearing...
...Marshall Plan. The strategy of containment was accepted by both parties. I believe that our circumstances today offer a similar opportunity and we must consider policies and actions on a comparable scale, with that same spirit of bipartisanship. This is an opportunity we cannot afford to let slip. We must be as creative today as our predecessors were a half-century ago. Realism and idealism are two strains not only in our foreign policy but also in our character as a people. We function best when those two values work hand in hand...
...opposed to simulating scenarios in a room with actors, the IVR-Cave allows teachers and therapists to slip real-life distractors like cell phones ringing, babies crying and people talking loudly into the experience. Additionally, the simulator tracks patients' anxiety and heart rate by biometric feedback, and each simulated experience is video recorded so it can be replayed and deconstructed with the therapist or teacher. "Newly developed treatment content could soon be... licensed worldwide for speech pathology treatment," Tom Milks, vice president of advertising and promotions at VirTra Systems told the Case Western News Center. Williams notes that...
...Well, we're here to tell you that people get in everywhere!" She polls the crowd: What percentage of kids do you think get into their first-choice school? One guess is 5%; another is 20%. Furtado beams and announces slowly, so as not to let the Good Word slip out too carelessly: "79.8% of first-year students are at their first-choice school...