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Such a system of education must think I have more electives to spare than I do, for as a non-English concentrator my valuable literature electives are few and far between. It must also believe that large, overflowing lectures of students, the majority of whom are there to "fill a Core," are preferable and educationally more beneficial than smaller, more intimate circles of students very well-read in the material, students most likely concentrating in that field...
...know what the cow is feeling," Grandin, a realist, tells Sacks over a dinner of spare ribs. But while she has animal rapport, her neurological wiring bypasses most human emotions; the upheavals of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet leave her unmoved. The characters closest to her heart are Star Trek's android Data and his poignant predecessor, the supercognitive Mr. Spock...
...lackluster media presence. This has not always hurt him in California, where hard-plugging, middle-class suburbanites feel he is one of them. Wilson, in fact, lives in a shake-roof ranch house in suburban east Sacramento. He barbecues, plays the piano, exercises on a StairMaster in the spare bedroom, shops for videos at the Arden Fair mall and travels economy class on commercial flights. He is the suburban Everyman...
...will feature interviews with subjects ranging from noteworthy professors to Spare Change vendors, and will also present national and international summaries and community updates...
...Spare me the fraternal heckling,'' I say. ``We crypto-anarchists don't have time for such things...