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Willis, 52, is an African-American professor of Buddhism at Wesleyan University. At her home in Middletown, Conn., she points to a snapshot of the 1981 encounter, noting that only after a decade of meditation was she able to examine her blackness. She adds, "I became able to deal with the deep wounds of race because of Buddhist practice...
Though individual institutional scores are not yet available to the public, this month colleges and universities got a glimpse of how they stack up against national norms in five areas of engagement. In addition to helping schools scrutinize themselves, the study offers a snapshot of contemporary higher education. "We've got a new camera," says Russ Edgerton, director of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning. "It's not the Hubble, but it reveals a [new] dimension of quality." Among the findings...
...most part relying on a single source for their exit polling information - the Voter News Service. The VNS quizzes people exiting polling stations in thousands of (hopefully) representative precincts nationwide, asking them a series of demographic and attitudinal questions that in theory give us a complete snapshot of the Mind of the American Voter. The service is blisteringly fast, churning out state and national results in three waves as the voting day progresses...
...Windows Millennium Edition, the latest version of Windows, set for release this week. The best--and arguably only--reason to pay $59 for Windows Me, as it's known, is to get the new "system restore" features designed to make your software indestructible. By automatically taking a snapshot of your hard drive every day (or any other interval you designate), Windows Me lets you go back after a crash and restore the computer to its previous settings--something Windows never did before. It also stops you from deleting essential files needed to operate your computer...
...learn a lot about candidates who must preside over an execution while campaigning for the presidency. Voters got a snapshot of Bill Clinton when he interrupted his New Hampshire stumping to fly back to Little Rock, Ark., in 1992 and oversee the death of a brain-damaged prisoner convicted of murder. Some saw it as the best smell test of Clinton's ruthlessness, others as affirmation that he really wasn't a bleeding-heart liberal...